Rating:
51756
{95}%
6 votes
Adams Street Bridge
Photos
View Northwest, General View Of Bridge Within Setting
Photo taken by Wayne Fleming for the Historic American Engineering Record
View photos at Library of Congress
BH Photo #228013
Description
Adams Street Bridge has significance 1) as an example of stone-slab and stone-arch construction, once-common bridge-building technologies; 2) as the work of Gridley Bryant, a notable 19th-century engineer and inventor who designed and constructed the pioneering Granite Railway; 3) as a contributing element in the Dorchester/Milton Lower Mills Industrial District (listed in the National Register of Historic Places); and 4) as a structure that recalls the important role of the granite industry in the historical development of Milton and the nearby town of Quincy.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
There is no visual evidence that this bridge still exists.
Facts
- Overview
- Stone bridge over Neponset River on Adams Street
- Location
- Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Slab spans built 1765; arch spans added 1847; rehabilitated 2006
- Design
- Stone arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 32.2 ft.
Total length: 119.1 ft.
Deck width: 42.3 ft.
- Recognition
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Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.27098, -71.06817 (decimal degrees)
42°16'16" N, 71°04'05" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 19/329443/4681934 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Boston South
- Average daily traffic (as of 2018)
- 30,800
- Inventory numbers
- MA B16003 (Massachusetts bridge number)
BH 51756 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of November 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 94 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- August 7, 2016: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- March 19, 2012: Added by James Baughn
What an excellent posting. Current photos of this hidden span would be wonderful.