Word: basins
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that was passed by Congress last February permission was given for the construction of a drawless bridge over the Charles at Soldiers Field of not less than twelve feet clearance in the main channel over the ordinary height of water in the basin. The Massachusetts Legislature passed an act that was approved by the governor on May 13 last amending a previous act in accordance with the act of Congress providing for the building of a bridge with funds donated for the purpose, the payment of damages to any persons up river whose rights of access by water are injured...
...plans under consideration by the Metropolitan Park Commission which will have charge of constructing the bridge, after the preliminaries incident to the approaches have been settled and the money has been formally donated. One plan is for a bridge at the minimum height of 12 feet above the basin water level. This would necessitate approaches on either side of from 170 to 200 feet and there would be no land damages to abutting owners on either side, for the reason that the land affected is owned by the state, and is mostly Metropolitan parkway. The University might have a small...
...gradient of the approaches would be three per cent. With the 12-foot bridge the rise above the existing bridge would be about 3 1-2 feet and with the 16-foot bridge 7 1-2 feet, the existing bridge being about 8 1-2 feet above the Basin water level...
Last year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, realizing that it must soon move from its crowded quarters in the heart of Boston, looked about for a new site and was much attracted by the Riverbank esplanade on the north side of the Back Bay Basin. No better location could be desired for a great institution like the Institute, and its buildings as planned would have made a noble frame for that side of the Embankment. But the trustees of Technology hesitated, knowing the determination that had been expressed by a few persons in Cambridge to persist until they succeeded...
...that Cambridge might have secured that institution, and thereby added directly to the taxable value of the land between the Riverbank and the Grand Junction Railroad, began to impress the intelligent business men of Cambridge. Nothing could be more desired than that the Cambridge side of the Back Bay Basin, on which millions of dollars have been spent, should be occupied by monumental buildings, worthy of the location and of the city. Here was the opportunity, when an institution of great reputation throughout the United States would erect such buildings, and thereby assure the future of that entire section...