Longfellow Bridge
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The Longfellow Bridge is a steel rib arch bridge spanning the Charles River to connect Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood with the Kendall Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The bridge carries Ma
Longfellow Bridge viewed from the Boston end in 2019
The main piers have sculptures that represent the prows of Viking ships.
The new Cambridge Bridge viewed from Boston, sometime between 1906 and 1912. Streetcar tracks can be seen on each side, but the central rapid transit tracks are not yet in use.
The fenced-off sidewalk on the south side of the bridge, pre-restoration
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to completely t
Longfellow Bridge
…and was formally dedicated on July 31, 1907. The Cambridge Bridge was renamed Longfellow Bridge in 1927, by the Massachusetts General Court to honor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who had written about the predecessor West Boston Bridge in his 1845 poem "The Bridge". There are pedestrian stairs on both sides of the bridge at…
An 1868 portrait of Longfellow by Julia Margaret Cameron
Birthplace of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland, Maine, c. 1910; the house was demolished in 1955.
Mary Storer Potter became Longfellow's first wife in 1831 and died four years later.
After a seven-year courtship, Longfellow married Frances Appleton in 1843