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Malden Bridge (Original)
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Alford street bridge
Bridge replaced
Photo taken by Douglas Butler in July 2014
License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
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BH Photo #287898
Description
This Strauss Overhead counterweight trunnion bascule bridge is long replaced with a 2 parallel double leaf bascule bridge. The bridge collapsed on February 1, 1965.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Through truss bridge over Mystic River on Route 99 Alford Street
- Location
- Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1917, replaced 1965 collapsed Februrary 1
- Builder
- - Strauss Bascule Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
- Design
- Through truss bascule
- Dimensions
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Total length: 103.0 ft.
- Also called
- Alford Street Bridge (Old)
Mystic River Bridge (Old)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.39025, -71.07068 (decimal degrees)
42°23'25" N, 71°04'14" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 19/329559/4695183 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Boston North
- Inventory number
- BH 61652 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 29, 2022: Photo imported by Dave King
- May 28, 2022: Photo imported by Dave King
- March 13, 2020: Updated by Douglas Butler: Added info
- December 21, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
- July 10, 2014: New Street View added by Douglas Butler