Twenty-first Street Bridge, Spanning Railroad tracks at Twenty-first Street, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO
Summary
Significance: The Twenty-First Street Bridge is a 1,272-foot-long through Parker truss and through Pony truss featuring pineapple finials atop its portals. It is a little-altered surviving example of a late 19th century steel truss bridge. Bridges of this age are rare in Missouri.
Survey number: HAER MO-11
Building/structure dates: 1892 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1976
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Gayler , Carl
Stifel
Ruckert
Location
St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 37.96425, -91.83183
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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