Fore River Bridge, Route 3A, spanning Fore River, Weymouth, Norfolk County, MA. Surveyed as HAER MASS,11-WEYMO,5-, with 1 photograph and a 238-word written history.
“The new bridge, with a total length of feet, and a 60 foot roadway, included a 175-foot draw span, of the double leaf rolling lift type, designed to open or close in one and a half minutes.”
Written record, HAER MASS,11-WEYMO,5- survey. Machine-read text.
surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER MASS,11-WEYMO,5- · the record runs 238 words · one of 94 surveyed structures published for this county.
1 photograph from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.
Source document Quoted word for word from HAER MASS,11-WEYMO,5-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.
Route 3A has been the main route to the South Shore, ever since the Hingham and Quincy Bridge and Turnpike Corporation was formed in A swing bridge was built here in but proved a bottleneck, both to shipping, with the shipyard upstream, and to exstensive South Shore traffic. The new bridge, with a total length of feet, and a 60 foot roadway, included a 175-foot draw span, of the double leaf rolling lift type, designed to open or close in one and a half minutes. It was designed and built by the Massachusetts Department of Public Works under the direction of George Delano, Chief Engineer, and George Harkness, Bridge Engineer.
Desmond and Lord were consulting architects responsible for the ornamental Art-Deco appearance of the pylons, which were faced in granite and trimmed with copper detailing. The bridge won an Honorable Mention in from the American Institute of Steel Engineers. Transmitted by: Dan Clement, Historical Information written by Peter Stott.
| Weymouth, Massachusetts | The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town. |
| Norfolk County, Massachusetts | 278 topographic sheets across the county. |
| Library of Congress record | The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above. |
The federal surveyors worked through Weymouth building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.
| Sheet | Structure | Survey | Report |
|---|---|---|---|
 | John S. Fogg Shoe Factory | HAER MASS,11-WEYMO,4- | 459 words |
 | Captain William Wildes House | HABS MASS,11-WEYMO,1- | 445 words |
 | Edison Electric Illuminating Company | HAER MASS,11-WEYMO,6- | 195 words |
| Bowditch Estate | HABS MA-418 | 91 words | |
 | Abigail (Smith) Adams House | HABS MASS,11-WEYMO,2- | 81 words |
 | First Church | HABS MASS,11-WEYMO,3- | 27 words |
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