Harvard Bridge
The Harvard Bridge is a steel haunched girder bridge carrying Massachusetts Avenue over the Charles River and connecting Back Bay, Boston with Cambridge, Massachusetts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Bridge
- Description: bridge over the Charles River near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Also known as: “John Harvard Bridge”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Charlesgate Hotel and New England College of Optometry.
Charlesgate Hotel
Historic building
Charlesgate Hotel is a historic building, which is situated 1,500 feet south of Harvard Bridge.
New England College of Optometry
College
Photo: EdJohnston, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The New England College of Optometry is a private optometry college in Boston, Massachusetts. It enrolls over 500 students and is one of the oldest continually operating college of optometry in the United States. New England College of Optometry is situated 1,400 feet southeast of Harvard Bridge.
Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum
Museum
The Hart Nautical Gallery is a gallery in the MIT Museum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The collections include construction drawings of the Doris sailing yacht, designer William Hand’s surviving drawings, and material relating to shipbuilder Jacob Aaron Westervelt. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum is situated 1,700 feet north of Harvard Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fenway-Kenmore and Kendall Square.
Fenway-Kenmore
Photo: kenji ross, CC BY 2.0.
The Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood is named after Kenmore Square, and after the Fens, both of which it encompasses. Kenmore Square is the area's dynamic urban center.
Kendall Square
Locality
Kendall Square is a neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The square itself is located at the intersection of Main Street and Broadway.
Back Bay
Suburb
Historical heavyweights, Back Bay and Beacon Hill are some of Boston's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary.
Harvard Bridge
- Categories: girder bridge, road bridge, and transportation
- Location: City of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.3542° or 42° 21′ 15″ northLongitude
-71.09113° or 71° 5′ 28″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Inception
1891Operator
MassDOTOpen location code
87JC9W35+MGOpenStreetMap ID
way 470823564OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=bridge
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Harvard Bridge” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “哈佛大橋”
- Chinese: “哈佛橋”
- Dutch: “Harvard Bridge”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوبرى هارفارد”
- French: “Harvard Bridge”
- German: “Harvard Bridge”
- German: “Massachusetts Avenue Bridge”
- German: “MIT Bridge”
- Italian: “Harvard Bridge”
- Japanese: “ハーバード橋”
- Russian: “Гарвардский мост”
- Spanish: “puente de Harvard”
- Spanish: “Puente de Harvard”
- Ukrainian: “Гарвардський міст”
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