The Harvard Bridge is a steel haunched girder bridge carrying Massachusetts Avenue over the Charles River and connecting Back Bay, Boston with Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is the longest bridge over the Charles River at 2,164.8 feet.
Seen from Cambridge (2017)
Postcard showing Harvard Bridge looking toward Boston in 1910, from the roof of the Riverbank Court Hotel (now Maseeh Hall, an MIT dormitory)
Postcard showing Harvard Bridge, looking toward Cambridge and MIT sometime between 1916 and 1924
Harry Houdini before he jumped from the bridge 1908
Massachusetts Avenue (metropolitan Boston)
Massachusetts Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Boston, Massachusetts, and several cities and towns northwest of Boston. According to Boston magazine, "Its 16 miles of blacktop run from gritty industrial zones to verdant suburbia, homeless encampments, passing gentrified brownstones, college campuses and bustling commercial strips."
Massachusetts Avenue near Beacon Street in Boston
77 Massachusetts Avenue, the site of MIT, an important landmark in Cambridge
Massachusetts Avenue forms the commercial heart of Cambridge's Central Square.