Eliot Bridge

Eliot Bridge

The Eliot Bridge in October 2008
Coordinates 42°22′18″N 71°07′58″W / 42.3718°N 71.1328°W / 42.3718; -71.1328Coordinates: 42°22′18″N 71°07′58″W / 42.3718°N 71.1328°W / 42.3718; -71.1328
Crosses Charles River
Locale Cambridge, Massachusetts to Allston
Characteristics
Design arch bridge[1]
History
Construction end 1950[2]
Eliot Bridge
Location in Massachusetts

The Eliot Bridge is a bridge over the Charles River between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Allston, Boston, Massachusetts. It connects Soldiers Field Road in Allston with Gerry's Landing Road, Memorial Drive, Greenough Boulevard, and the Fresh Pond Parkway in Cambridge.

The bridge was built in 1950 as a memorial to Charles W. Eliot, Harvard president 1869–1909, and his son Charles Eliot, landscape architect for the Metropolitan Park Commission.

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