Selby Avenue Bridge, Spanning Short Line Railways track at Selby Avenue between Hamline & Snelling Avenues, Saint Paul, Ramsey County, MN
Summary
Significance: The Selby Avenue Bridge is significant for its subtle delineation of an exceptional engineering solution to a difficult urban transportation design problem. Selby Avenue intersects the Short Line railroad tracks at an extreme skew. This condition necessitated other than a conventional bridge design to carry the avenue over the tracks. The bridge is also significant as the work of Andreas W. Munster, St. Paul City Bridge Engineer who went on to a prominent career with the Chicago and Great Western Railroad, and for its association with the expanding transportation systems of St. Paul during the period of the city's growth.
Survey number: HAER MN-61
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Location
minnesota, 44.95370, -93.08996
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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