Craigie and associates, who formed the Lechemere Point Corporation, benefited from the building boom that followed, spurred on by their efforts to expand the public street grid.

[9] The current bridge was constructed in 1910, along with the dam that turned the lower Charles River from a tidal estuary into a fresh-water basin.

This reduced the problematic odor from raw sewage flowing into the river by keeping the formerly tidal lands covered with water.

Thousands of people watched from the new Boston Embankment (the early Charles River Esplanade), which took the place of the former tidal flats.

The project required the closure of the Boston-bound lanes from November 6, 2010, through mid December 2010, and again from early February 2011 through mid-April 2011, necessitating traffic detours.