Broadway Avenue Bridge

Broadway Avenue Bridge

Infobox_Bridge
bridge_name=Broadway Avenue Bridge



caption=
official_name=Broadway Avenue Bridge
crosses=Mississippi River
carries=Four lanes of West Broadway/Broadway Street Northeast
locale=Minneapolis, Minnesota
design=Girder bridge
mainspan=186 feet
length=857 feet
width=52 feet
below=22.6 feet
open=1987
maint=City of Minneapolis
id=27608
coordinates= coord|44|59|56|N|93|16|31|W|region:US_type:landmark
map_


map_width=300px
map_cue=Bridges over the Mississippi in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
map_text= Broadway Ave. Bridge is in the bottom half of this image between N. Pacific-BNSF Minneapolis and Plymouth Ave. bridges

Broadway Avenue Bridge is a girder bridge that spans the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was built in 1987 and was designed by Norman C. Davis and Shawn Pierson Bruns of VanDoren-Hazard-Stallings. The bridge has a rather streamlined shape, but its piers are more ornate. The piers have two flat columns that taper together, with a base that extends out to the full width of the bridge.

This bridge is the third bridge to cross the river at this location. The first bridge was a wooden structure completed in 1857, but washed away in a flood in 1859. The second bridge was a four-span Pratt truss bridge built in 1887. It spanned the northern industrial district that was developing on both sides of the river. The 1887 bridge was very ornate, featuring finials on each top corner and a band of scrolls, crosses, and lines between them. The horizontal struts and guard railings used X-shapes as a pattern. In 1950, the bridge was raised 20 feet to allow barges and larger boats to pass underneath. The old bridge was removed in 1985, but a single span of the bridge lives on as the Merriam Street Bridge that connects Nicollet Island to the St. Anthony section of Minneapolis.

Crossings navbox
structure = Bridges
place = Mississippi River
bridge = Broadway Avenue Bridge
bridge signs =
upstream = Northern Pacific-BNSF Minneapolis Rail Bridge
upstream signs =
downstream = Plymouth Avenue Bridge
downstream signs =

ee also

*List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River

References

* cite book
last = Costello
first = Mary Charlotte
authorlink =
coauthors =
year = 2002
title = Climbing the Mississippi River Bridge by Bridge, Volume Two: Minnesota
publisher = Adventure Publications
location = Cambridge, MN
id = ISBN 0-9644518-2-4


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