Inventory Search Results
3 suspension bridges were found for search criteria: SSB. All 3 bridges from the search results appear below. Click the Bridgemeister ID number to isolate the bridge on its own page. If you don't see what you were looking for, try an image search with the same criteria: SSB. This will find the bridge if it is pictured on the site, but is not a catenary suspension bridge.
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1890: Grand Avenue
St. Louis, Missouri, USA - Mill Creek Valley
| Bridgemeister ID: | 96 (added before 2003) |
| Year Completed: | 1890 |
| Name: | Grand Avenue |
| Also Known As: | Jefferson Avenue |
| Location: | St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
| Crossing: | Mill Creek Valley |
| Principals: | Carl Gayler |
| References: | AAJ, HBE, IEA, ONF, PTS2, SSB |
| Use: | Vehicular, with walkway |
| Status: | Demolished, 1960 |
| Main Cables: | Eyebar |
| Suspended Spans: | 3 |
| Main Span: | 1 x 121.9 meters (400 feet) |
| Side Spans: | 2 x 45.7 meters (150 feet) |
| Deck width: | 60 feet |
| Characteristics: | Braced (trussed) chain/cable |
Notes:
- Braced chain (stiffened-eyebar) design often espoused by Gustav Lindenthal. ONF (an article by Lindenthal) refers to this as the Jefferson Ave. bridge while Fowler's book (IEA) calls it "Grand Avenue". AAJ describes it as "a three-hinged inverted arch with two stiffened chains, one on each side."
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1891: Lower
English Center Borough, Pennsylvania, USA - Little Pine Creek
| Bridgemeister ID: | 99 (added before 2003) |
| Year Completed: | 1891 |
| Name: | Lower |
| Location: | English Center Borough, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Crossing: | Little Pine Creek |
| Coordinates: | 41.4349 N 77.28887 W |
| Maps: | Acme, GeoHack, Google, OpenStreetMap |
| Principals: | Dean & Westbrook |
| References: | HAERPA461, HHP, SSB |
| Use: | Vehicular (one-lane) |
| Status: | In use (last checked: 2023) |
| Main Cables: | Eyebar (steel) |
| Suspended Spans: | 1 |
| Main Span: | 1 x 91.4 meters (300 feet) |
Notes:
- This bridge is an eyebar suspension and truss hybrid similar to the Florianopolis, Silver, and Saint Marys bridges.
- 2012, May: Closed for two weeks for repairs after a snapped support was discovered.
- Companion to 1891 Upper - English Center Borough, Pennsylvania, USA.
- See 1926 Hercilio Luz (Florianopolis) - Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
- See 1928 Point Pleasant (Silver) - Point Pleasant, West Virginia and Kanauga, Gallipolis vicinity, Ohio, USA.
- See 1928 Saint Marys (Hi Carpenter, Short Route) - Saint Marys, West Virginia and Newport, Ohio, USA.
Annotated Citations:
- Crossley, Pat. "Historic bridge on the list to be rehabbed." Williamsport Sun-Gazette, 9 Mar. 2023, https://www.sungazette.com/news/top-news/2023/03/historic-bridge-on-the-list-to-be-rehabbed/
$12 million rehabilitation project planned. "According to Maggie Baker, a spokesperson with PennDOT… 'After traffic is switched to the temporary bridge, the existing bridge will be carefully dismantled. The existing structural components of the bridge will be shipped to a fabricator to be cleaned and painted. Remedies for damaged components will be coordinated with the onsite cultural resource representative. Abutments will be carefully dismantled and reconstructed.'"
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1947: Lumberville-Raven Rock
Lumberville, Pennsylvania and Bulls Island State Park, New Jersey, USA - Delaware River
| Bridgemeister ID: | 204 (added before 2003) |
| Year Completed: | 1947 |
| Name: | Lumberville-Raven Rock |
| Also Known As: | Bulls Island |
| Location: | Lumberville, Pennsylvania and Bulls Island State Park, New Jersey, USA |
| Crossing: | Delaware River |
| Coordinates: | 40.407017 N 75.038183 W |
| Maps: | Acme, GeoHack, Google, OpenStreetMap |
| Principals: | John A. Roebling's Sons Co. |
| References: | BDR, BONJ, SSB |
| Use: | Footbridge |
| Status: | In use (last checked: 2007) |
| Main Cables: | Wire (steel) |
| Suspended Spans: | 5 |
| Main Spans: | 5 |
| Characteristics: | Braced (trussed) chain/cable, Hinged cables |
Notes:
- SSB has an old picture of the bridge from a "Roebling publication". The original caption inside the picture says: "Practical application of Roebling Bridge research is the Lumberville footbridge which spans the Delaware River about twenty miles above Trenton. Pictured below, it utilizes four slabs of Roebling prestressed concrete and the Roebling-developed cable stiffening principle for the first time in the Western Hemisphere." and the authors of SSB go on to describe it asa "two-hinged braced cable suspension footbridge."
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