Scope and Content: The Mystic River Bridge Authority was responsible for construction, maintenance, and operation of the Mystic River (now Tobin) Bridge between Boston and Chelsea, Massachusetts until it was superseded by the Massachusetts Port Authority in 1959.  Related functions included acquisition of real estate by purchase or eminent domain, as supported by this series.
Arrangement: Arranged alpha/numerically by parcel
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Massachusetts Port Authority, March-May 1993. Scheduled as part of: Mystic River Bridge Authority [files]
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Scope and Content: The Mystic River Bridge Authority was responsible for construction, maintenance, and operation of the Mystic River (now Tobin) Bridge between Boston and Chelsea, Massachusetts from 1946 until it was superseded by the Massachusetts Port Authority in 1959.  Series was created to record official deliberations and decisions of the authority.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Massachusetts Port Authority, May-September, 1993. Scheduled as part of: Mystic River Bridge Authority [files]
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) is the state agency responsible for operation and maintenance of commercial aviation, maritime, and (to 2009) certain bridge facilities in and around the Port of Boston.  The engineering unit of its engineering division manages procurement and implementation of Massport design and construction contracts and monitoring of approved projects from proposal to completion, including requesting bids and proposals, and selecting designs and contractors.  Series supports these activities as reference until project completion. –Files may contain legal notices, bids, correspondence, change orders, daily reports, minutes, conformed copy of contract, payment record, and photographs; also as-built plans, summaries, specifications, and land disposition vital records.  Topics include consultant selection, design review, and environmental clearances. –Currently archived files include items relating to lands at or near the Port of Boston, some originating from before the Authority’s establishment in 1956.  Holdings are as follows: acc. 2014/08–Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Shipbuilding Division: (1) Bethlehem-Hingham shipyard plans, 1944; (2) Fore River Yard plans, 1943-1944; (3) Boston yards plans, 1944; (4) Boston yard property maps, 1958. Boston Army Supply Base: (5) Utility atlases and operating plans, 1919 (U.S. War Dept. Construction Division); (6) Survey of condition of structures, 1963 (MassPort). (7) Work summary for transportation systems studies for Third Harbor Tunnel, 1984 (MassPort). (8) Commonwealth Ice and Cold Storage Co. Blueprints, 1913. –acc. 2014/15–(boxes 1-4) Mystic River (1947)/Maurice J. Tobin Memorial (1967) Bridge linking Charlestown and Chelsea: land-taking, engineering, environmental, toll study files, including plans and photographs; (box 5) financial feasibility studies (2008) re possible transfer of Metropolitan Highway System from Massachusetts Turnpike Authority  to Massachusetts  Port Authority;  possible transfer of Tobin Bridge from Massachusetts Port Authority to Dept. of Transportation (accomplished by St 2009, c 25, which also transferred Massachusetts Turnpike Authority  functions to the department).
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), responsible for maintaining the Mystic River (later Tobin) Bridge from Boston to Chelsea, Massachusetts, was authorized by St 1964, c 682 to construct connections between that bridge and another high-level bridge to be constructed over the Charles River between Leverett Circle, Boston proper, and City Square, Charlestown, by the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC); cost of the project was to be divided between the two agencies.  Project files were created by the authority’s research/planning division in the course of interagency planning for the proposed bridge.
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) is the state agency responsible for operation and maintenance of commercial aviation, maritime, and certain bridge facilities in and around the Port of Boston.  The planning unit of its planning division formulates plans for development and modification of Massport facilities, including submitting such plans and related feasibility studies to the Massport executive board for action.  Series consists of plans and views of related urban projects created as reference to support these activities, and, if approved, to serve as basis for architectural and engineering drawings by the engineering division.
Arrangement:  In two subseries: (a) photographic prints  (b) negatives and documents
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) is the state agency responsible for operation and maintenance of commercial aviation, maritime, and certain bridge facilities in and around the Port of Boston.  The administration unit of the secretary-treasurer’s division carries out the secretary-treasurer’s mandate to be record keeper of the authority, including keeping minutes of executive board meetings held to determine Massport policies and appropriate activities.  Series consists of this record of authorized actions in regular (monthly) and special meetings, including executive sessions. –include board minutes/agendas, 1992-1993, 2 sets plus microfilm; assistant secretary-treasurer board meeting agendas, 1980-1989; finance committee minutes/agendas, 1986-1989, minutes only, 1992-1993–2 sets plus microfilm. –Additional/active records in agency may also contain synopsis of selected materials and submissions consisting of executive director’s monthly report and copies of public affairs, personnel, finance, and facilities committees meeting minutes.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Accessioned as series 2590
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) is the state agency responsible for operation and maintenance of commercial aviation, maritime, and certain bridge facilities in and around the Port of Boston.  The environmental unit of its planning division monitors environmental effects of Massport construction projects.  Series is created to support such monitoring by unit specialists.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) is the state agency responsible for operation and maintenance of commercial aviation, maritime, and certain bridge facilities in and around the Port of Boston.  The engineering unit of its engineering division manages procurement and implementation of Massport design and construction contracts and monitoring of approved projects from proposal to completion, including providing as-bid plans, approving changes, and maintaining as-built plans.  Series consists of as-built plans kept in full-size for reference.
Arrangement: Arranged by project number
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Scope and Content: Massachusetts St 1929, c 229 established the Boston Port Authority, a board consisting of two gubernatorial appointees and three appointees by the mayor of Boston, to investigate matters relating to the port of Boston.  The membership was enlarged and responsibilities redefined by St 1938, c 453. St 1945, c 619 replaced the Boston Port Authority with the Port of Boston Authority, consisting of five gubernatorial appointees. St 1951, c 457 transferred from the authority to the Dept. of Public Works responsibility for certain sections of tidewater as specified in the act. St 1953, 608 replaced the Port of Boston Authority with the Port of Boston Commission, also consisting of five gubernatorial appointees.  Per St 1956, c 465 (revised by St 1958, c 599), effective Feb. 1959, the Port of Boston Commission was absorbed into and replaced by the Massachusetts Port Authority.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives by Massachusetts Port Authority, May 1997. Box 1 (also includes minutes of the State Airport Management Board (M-Ar)2616X)): 1945-1951. Box 2: 1952-1959.
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Scope and Content: Massachusetts St 1948, c 637 transferred managerial functions of the Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission and functions of the Bureau of Airport Management to a State Airport Management Board, under a commissioner of airport management.  The board was to assure the adoption and carrying out of sound business policies in the management and operation of Logan Airport and Hanscom Field and any other state-owned airport that might be established. It was abolished and absorbed into the Massachusetts Port Authority by St 1956, c 465 (revised by St 1959, c 599), effective Feb. 1959. Minutes record deliberations and actions of the board at its meetings at least several times monthly.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives by Massachusetts Port Authority, May 1997
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