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
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Tags
steel truss bridges
civil engineering
bridge construction
railroad companies
vehicular bridges
pedestrian bridges
twenty first
bridge
twenty first street bridge
railroad
twenty first street
saint louis
st louis
missouri
carl gayler
historic american engineering record
ruckert
stifel
photo
ultra high resolution
high resolution
industrial history
library of congress
railway photo archive
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
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