Strawberry Mansion Bridge
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Strawberry Mansion Bridge | |
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Coordinates | 39°59′42″N 75°11′38″W / 39.995°N 75.194°W |
Carries | Strawberry Mansion Drive |
Crosses | Schuylkill River, Schuylkill River Trail, Kelly Drive, Martin Luther King Drive |
Locale | Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Official name | Strawberry Mansion Bridge |
Other name(s) | Park Trolley Bridge |
Characteristics | |
Design | Steel arch |
Total length | 1,242.2 feet (378.6 m) |
Width | 80.0 feet (24.4 m): roadway, originally 40.0 feet (12.2 m)), currently 32.2 feet (9.8 m)); pedestrian walk 12.0 feet (3.7 m); former trolley right-of-way 28.0 feet (8.5 m) |
Longest span | 200.1 feet (61.0 m) |
History | |
Opened | April 20, 1897, reopened 1995 |
Closed | 1991-1995 for renovations |
Statistics | |
Daily traffic | 14,500 (1996) |
Toll | none |
Location | |
The Strawberry Mansion Bridge is a steel arch truss bridge across the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,[1] in the United States.[2]
It was built in 1896–1897 by the Phoenix Iron Company, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania,[3] under private ownership by the Fairmount Park Transportation Company, which operated trolleys over the bridge,[2] with pedestrian and carriage lanes on the north side. Trolley service was discontinued in 1946.
The Philadelphia Historical Commission designated the bridge as a historic structure on September 7, 1978.
From 1991 to 1995, the bridge was closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic, while it was restored to its historical appearance.
As of 2010, the bridge remains in use, carrying vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
See also
- Historic Strawberry Mansion, from which the bridge takes its name
- List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania
- List of crossings of the Schuylkill River
References
- ^ Article at "Workshop of the World"
- ^ a b "Strawberry Mansion Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River at Strawberry Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA". Loc.gov. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
- ^ "Strawberry Mansion Bridge". 39.995000;-75.195000: Bridgehunter.com. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
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External links
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-1669, "Strawberry Mansion Bridge", 3 photos, 1 color transparency, 3 photo caption pages
- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. PA-92, "Strawberry Mansion Bridge", 6 photos, 1 color transparency, 10 data pages, 1 photo caption page
- US Pennsylvania articles missing geocoordinate data
- Arch bridges
- Bridges in Philadelphia
- Bridges completed in 1897
- Road bridges in Pennsylvania
- Railroad bridges in Pennsylvania
- Road-rail bridges in the United States
- Bridges over the Schuylkill River
- Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania
- Historic American Buildings Survey in Pennsylvania
- Fairmount Park
- Strawberry Mansion, Philadelphia