- City:
- Boston, MA
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1935
Description
A Boston Public Works Department report cited Federal Emergency Relief Administration (F.E.R.A.) labor as conducting the following work: “Glenwood Avenue Bridge (over Mother Brook) cleaned and painted.”
Source notes
Annual report of the [Boston] Public Works Department, for the year 1935 (pg. 21). https://archive.org/stream/annualreportofpu1935bostSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 25, 2017.
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Glenwood Ave Bridge is not over Mother Brook. It is upstream of the Brook on the Neponset River.
The bridge section repaired in 1935 document above was the part going over Mother Brook side. There were east and west bridges previously- see 1900s below: https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:8336h326z