Editor: Historic American Engineering Record, creator, Library of Congress, Picryl, source: https://picryl.com/media/summer-street-bridge-spanning-reserved-channel-boston-suffolk-county-ma-16 Not for reuse. The Summer Street Bridge (over Reserved Channel) is the

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Historic American Engineering Record, creator, Library of Congress, Picryl, source: https://picryl.com/media/summer-street-bridge-spanning-reserved-channel-boston-suffolk-county-ma-16 Not for reuse. The Summer Street Bridge (over Reserved Channel) is the older of two known retractile drawbridges surviving in Massachusetts, and one of only four known to survive in the United States. The Summer Street Bridge is an advanced example of an unusual bridge type which eventually gave way to simpler, less expensive types of movable bridges in the twentieth century. built in 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts, over the Fort Point Channel. It still stands, but the draw was welded shut and the motors removed in 1970. It was the site of a terrible streetcar crash on the night of November 7, 1916.

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Editor: Historic American Engineering Record, creator, Library of Congress, Picryl, source: https://picryl.com/media/summer-street-bridge-spanning-reserved-channel-boston-suffolk-county-ma-16 Not for reuse. The Summer Street Bridge (over Reserved Channel) is the