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Walnut Street Bridge, Spanning Susquehanna River at Walnut Street (State Route 3034), Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA

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Walnut Street Bridge, Spanning Susquehanna River at Walnut Street (State Route 3034), Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA

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Summary

Significance: The bridge is a representative example of a late 19th century factory-manufactured roadway bridge. The bridge consists of 15 pin-connected wrought-iron Baltimore-type through-truss spans manufactured by the Phoenix Bridge Company, and utilizes that firm's proprietary column design known as the "Phoenix column." The Phoenix Bridge Company made important contributions to bridge design and construction in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Survey number: HAER PA-412
Building/structure dates: 1889- 1890 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1894 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1972 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1996 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001115

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Lucius, Albert
Phoenix Bridge Company
Dean & Westbrook Bridge Company
Phoenix Iron Works
People's Bridge Company
Wallower, Elias Zollinger
Reilly, John B
Dean, C W
Westbrook, John A
Harrisburg & Mechanicsville Electric Railway Company
Smith, John C
Louis Berger & Associates, contractor
John Bowie Associates, contractor
Hotopp, John A, project manager
Grzybowski, Susan D, project manager
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, sponsor
Casella, Richard M, historian
Tucher, Rob, photographer
Bowie, John R, delineator
McCrory, Lou A, delineator
place

Location

Harrisburg40.27761, -76.85287
Google Map of 40.2776141, -76.8528721
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Source

Library of Congress
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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

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