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Carlton Street Footbridge In 1890, Frederick Law Olmsted, considered the father of American landscape architecture, designed the six-mile-long Emerald Necklace, America’s first park system. The footbridge and path design at Carlton Street was intended to link the “neighboring streets” to the Park. Built in 1894, but closed for the last 45 years, the 108’ single-span steel truss bridge spans the former Boston & Albany R.R. tracks. The bridge was designed by Alexis French, Olmsted’s collaborator in the design of Riverway and Olmsted Parks and Brookline’s first Town Engineer. The bridge provides access between Brookline’s historic Longwood/Cottage Farm neighborhoods and the Riverway Park section of the Emerald Necklace.