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Sudbury River Aqueduct, Echo Bridge, Spanning Charles River at Upper Newton Falls, Newton

Sudbury River Aqueduct, Echo Bridge, Spanning Charles River at Upper Newton Falls, Newton, Middlesex County, MA. Surveyed as HAER MASS,9-NEWT,15-, with 1 photograph and a 239-word written history.

From the record

“Echo Bridge is the largest of the visible structures on the mile Sudbury River Aqueduct connecting the Sudbury River in Framingham with Boston's Chestnut Hill Reservior.”

Written record, HAER MASS,9-NEWT,15- survey. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER MASS,9-NEWT,15- · the record runs 239 words · one of 333 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Sudbury River Aqueduct, Echo Bridge, Spanning Charles River at Upper Newton Falls, Newton, Middlesex County, MA, photograph filed with the federal survey

1 photograph from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.

Significance

168 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER MASS,9-NEWT,15-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Echo Bridge is the largest of the visible structures on the mile Sudbury River Aqueduct connecting the Sudbury River in Framingham with Boston's Chestnut Hill Reservior. Completed in the aqueduct was Boston's second major water supply, supplementing the Cochituate Aqueduct of Chief Engineer in charge of construction was Alphonse Fteley. The 475-foot long bridge consists of seven arches: five have 37-foot spans; that over Ellis St. is 28 feet long. The river span has a length of 130 feet, for many years the second largest masonry arch span in the U.S.(following that of the 220-foot Cabin John Aqueduct in Washington, and the eleventh in the world. A footbridge on the crown covers the conduit which is inside a brick and concrete framework.

The bridge takes it name from the ability of the central arch to echo loudly voices and other sounds beneath it. The bridge is situated in Hemlock Gorge, a rugged wooded setting, now an MDC reservation. Tranmitted by: Dan Clement, Historical information written by Peter Stott.

In context

Newton, Massachusetts The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Middlesex County, Massachusetts 449 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above.

Also surveyed in Newton

15 records

The federal surveyors worked through Newton building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Boston & Albany Railroad Station, photograph filed with the federal surveyBoston & Albany Railroad StationHABS MASS,9-NEWT,13-740 words
Silver Lake Cordage Company, photograph filed with the federal surveySilver Lake Cordage CompanyHAER MASS,9-NEWT,14-195 words
Wyman-Tower House, photograph filed with the federal surveyWyman-Tower HouseHABS MASS,9-NEWT,3-39 words
Crehore Paper Mill, photograph filed with the federal surveyCrehore Paper MillHABS MASS,9-NEWT,12-36 words
Timothy Jackson House, photograph filed with the federal surveyTimothy Jackson HouseHABS MASS,9-NEWT,1-35 words
Mill House No. 5, photograph filed with the federal surveyMill House No. 5HABS MASS,9-NEWT,9-35 words
Three Mill Houses, photograph filed with the federal surveyThree Mill HousesHABS MASS,9-NEWT,10-32 words
St. Mary's Episcopal Church, photograph filed with the federal surveySt. Mary's Episcopal ChurchHABS MASS,9-NEWT,11-32 words
Kenrick House, photograph filed with the federal surveyKenrick HouseHABS MASS,9-NEWT,4-30 words
Mill House No. 1, photograph filed with the federal surveyMill House No. 1HABS MASS,9-NEWT,5-30 words
Mill House No. 3, photograph filed with the federal surveyMill House No. 3HABS MASS,9-NEWT,7-30 words
Mill House No. 4, photograph filed with the federal surveyMill House No. 4HABS MASS,9-NEWT,8-25 words
John Woodward House, photograph filed with the federal surveyJohn Woodward HouseHABS MASS,9-NEWT,2-25 words
Mill House No. 2, photograph filed with the federal surveyMill House No. 2HABS MASS,9-NEWT,6-16 words
Newton Free Library, photograph filed with the federal surveyNewton Free LibraryHABS MASS,9-NEWCO,1-0 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER MASS,9-NEWT,15-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
  • How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from linked records; page labels and counts are clearly marked as presentation or calculations.