Comal Creek Bridge, Spanning Comal Creek at Business Route 46, New Braunfels, Comal County, TX
Summary
Significance: This reinforced concrete bridge and underpass complex features an urn-shaped balustrade and other decorative elements. Rock retaining walls were added later by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). As a principal thoroughfare serving traffic for nearby Landa Park, the structure's overall design announces an important civic space. The bridge is an interesting example of a statewide movement in the late 1920s to decrease automobile accidents at railroad grade crossings.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N367
Survey number: HAER TX-32
Building/structure dates: 1929 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Gilchrist, Gibb
Wickline, George
Morgan, J G
Bart Moore, Incorporated
Location
New Braunfels (Tex.), 29.74286, -98.21504
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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