East 34th Street Bridge
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The East 34th Street Bridge is a concrete open-spandrel
bridge in Tacoma, Washington
. The bridge was built in 1937 to replace a wood bridge that had previously spanned the gulch. The bridge is constructed of two rib arches, that are supported by 24 feet (7 m) support legs, with spandrel columns between the arches and the bridge's 485 feet (148 m) deck. The concrete railings on the deck are adorned with urn-shaped lampposts.
The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 1982.
Spandrel
A spandrel, less often spandril or splaundrel, is the space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure....
bridge in Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...
. The bridge was built in 1937 to replace a wood bridge that had previously spanned the gulch. The bridge is constructed of two rib arches, that are supported by 24 feet (7 m) support legs, with spandrel columns between the arches and the bridge's 485 feet (148 m) deck. The concrete railings on the deck are adorned with urn-shaped lampposts.
The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1982.
Sources
- Holstine, Craig; Hobbs, Richard (2005). Spanning Washington: Historic Highway Bridges of the Evergreen State, Washington State University Press, ISBN 0874222818.