Boston Public Garden Foot Bridge

The Boston Public Garden Foot Bridge is a pedestrian bridge crossing the lagoon in Boston Public Garden, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Description and history

Built in 1867, it was the world's shortest functioning suspension bridge before its conversion to a girder bridge in 1921.
A plaque reads, "Public Garden / Foot Bridge / Opened June 1, 1867 / Designers / Clemens Herschel, Civil Engineer / 1842 - 1930 / William G. Preston, Architect / 1842 - 1910 / Tablet Placed June 1, 1936 / Boston Society of Civil Engineers".
The bridge is surrounded with "a horticultural effusion of specimen trees and carpet bedding replacing a private effort to create a horticultural garden on the site of ropewalks that had been destroyed by fire".
The route of the Swan Boats passes under the bridge.