Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, Little Hunting Creek Bridge, 8.6 Miles South of I-95, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia
Summary
Significance: This parkway bridge is significant because it typifies the style of bridges that were designed for this new type of roadway. This bridge was designed to harmonize with the landscape by incorporating the natural shape of the arch, facing the bridge with native stone, and using careful attention regarding the plantings and landscape surrounding the bridge.
Survey number: HAER VA-42-D
Building/structure dates: 1929- 1932 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Clarke, Gilmore D
Budge, E J
DeWaters, F M
McNary, J V
Bureau of Public Roads
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Nolin, Elizabeth M, historian
Location
fairfax county, 38.72931, -77.10739
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html