Harvard Bridge

Harvard Bridge, also known locally as the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge and "Mass. Ave." Bridge, is a steel haunched girder bridge carrying Massachusetts Avenue over the Charles River and connecting Back Bay, Boston with Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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 New England College of Optometry and Charlesgate Hotel.

New England College of Optometry

College

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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 colleges of optometry in the United States. New England College of Optometry is situated 1,400 feet southeast of Harvard Bridge.

Charlesgate Hotel

Historic building

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Charlesgate Hotel is a historic building, which is situated 1,500 feet south of Harvard Bridge.

Kenmore station

Railway station

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Kenmore station is an underground light rail station on the MBTA Green Line, located under Kenmore Square in the Fenway/Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Kenmore station is situated 2,300 feet southwest of Harvard Bridge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fenway-Kenmore and Kendall Square.

Fenway-Kenmore

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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

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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

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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
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Latitude

42.3542° or 42° 21′ 15″ north

Longitude

-71.09113° or 71° 5′ 28″ west

Elevation

3 feet (1 metre)

Inception

1891

Operator

MassDOT

Open location code

87JC9W35+MG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 470823564

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=bridge

GeoNames ID

4938958

Wikidata ID

Q1587840

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Satellite Map

Discover Harvard Bridge from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

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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