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St. Louis Avenue Viaduct, Spanning Kansas City Terminal Railroad at Beardsley Road & Bluff Street, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO
Summary
Significance: The St. Louis Avenue Viaduct is the oldest of only nine known extant skewed Pratt truss bridges, a rather uncommon bridge form, in Missouri. Furthermore, its fifty-foot width is unusual for a bridge dating from that era.
Survey number: HAER MO-95
Building/structure dates: 1914-1915 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1955-1956 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1996 Demolished
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Tebbetts, George E
American Bridge Company
Strobel, Charles Louis
Strobel Steel Construction Company
Franklin-Weekley, Rachel, transmitter
Gutowski, John W, photographer
Millstein, Cydney E, historian
Location
Kansas City (Mo.), 39.10253, -94.59475
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
