Aurora Avenue Bridge, Spanning Lake Washington Ship Channel, Seattle, King County, WA

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Aurora Avenue Bridge, Spanning Lake Washington Ship Channel, Seattle, King County, WA

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Significance: The Aurora Avenue Bridge, a nearly 3,000-foot steel cantilever structure is one of Seattle's longest and tallest spans. It provided an important early crossing of the Lake Washington Ship Canal for motorists on western Washington's north-south motor route, the Pacific Highway.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N188
Survey number: HAER WA-107
Building/structure dates: 1931 Initial Construction

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1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
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Library of Congress
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