Eliot Bridge
Coordinates: 42 ° 22 '18 " N , 71 ° 7' 58" W.
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| Crossing of | Charles River | |
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Allston / Cambridge , Massachusetts , United States |
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| Building number | MA B16246 | |
| construction | Arch bridge | |
| overall length | 299.9 ft (91.4 m ) | |
| width | 64 ft (19.5 m ) | |
| Number of openings | 3 | |
| Longest span | 100.1 ft (30.5 m ) | |
| vehicles per day | approx. 70,000 | |
| completion | 1950 | |
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The Eliot Bridge is an arch bridge in the state of Massachusetts in the United States, completed in 1950 . It runs from the Boston borough of Allston to the city of Cambridge by connecting Soldiers Field Road with Greenough Boulevard and Memorial Drive .
The bridge was named after two people: on the one hand after Charles William Eliot , who was President of Harvard University from 1869 to 1909 , and on the other hand after his son Charles Eliot , who worked as a landscape architect in Boston for a long time .
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Upstream Arsenal Street Bridge |
Crossing the Charles River |
Downriver Anderson Memorial Bridge |
Road infrastructure in Boston
Transportation routes that are wholly or partially within the Boston metropolitan area
