Courtesy of Bpl/Arts Department

Longfellow Bridge is dedicated.

August 3, 1906

[7/31-WPA] Architect: Wheelwright, Edmund March. Engineer: William Jackson. Originally the New Cambridge Bridge and actuality the West Boston Bridge (third), it spans the Charles River and connects Boston to Cambridge. At the ceremony before a crowd of some 200,000 people. Mayor John F. Fitzgerald recites Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1845 poem about the first bridge. The bridge’s two granite “salt and pepper” towers are dedicated on July 31, 1907, and the bridge is renamed for the poet in 1927. The bridge is extensively renovated from 2013 to 2018.

Sources
  • Boston Globe
  • Beaucher, Steven
  • Boston By Foot
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