[1] Employees of the company were engineers and contractors for steel bridges, buildings, roofs, and railway turntables.

The general offices, for most of their operating years, were at 47 Winter Street, Boston, with a plant in East Cambridge.

[4] In August of 1909 a lawsuit was brought to the Massachusetts Superior Court claiming Boston Bridge Works and the New England Structural Company of wrongdoing in a civil suit.

The suit alleged the two companies were in a collusive bidding war.

[5] After both a fire at their Cambridge plant,[6] and declining contracts during the Great Depression, Boston Bridge Works went out of business in 1938.