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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Tags
pedestrian bridges
vehicular bridges
kansas city mo
viaduct
louis avenue viaduct
terminal
railroad
kansas city terminal railroad
beardsley
beardsley road
bluff
bluff street
kansas city
jackson county
st louis
saint louis
missouri
mississippi river
american bridge company
rachel franklin weekley
john w gutowski
historic american engineering record
cydney e millstein
strobel steel construction company
charles louis strobel
george e tebbetts
photo
ultra high resolution
high resolution
railroads
library of congress
railway photo archive
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
Link
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