Ellsworth Street Bridge

Infobox Bridge
bridge_name=Ellsworth Street Bridge

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carries=U.S. Route 20
crosses=Willamette River
locale=Albany, Oregon
maint=Oregon Department of Transportation
design=Truss bridge
mainspan=800 feet
length=1090 feet
width=26 feet
below=
open=1926
lat=44.6393
long=-123.106635

The Ellsworth Street Bridge is a highway bridge that crosses the Willamette River in Albany, Oregon, United States. Built in 1925, the two-lane structure carries U.S. Route 20 eastbound traffic, with the adjacent Lyon Street Bridge carrying westbound traffic. The convert|1090|ft|m|sing=on-long steel-truss bridge was designed by Conde McCullough and opened in 1926.

History

In 1887, a bridge was built across the Willamette River at Albany for the Corvallis and Eastern railway. [ [http://www.ci.albany.or.us/comdev/projects/narp/milestones.html North Albany Milestones.] City of Albany. Retrieved on April 19 2008.] The state of Oregon began building a new bridge across the river at the city in 1925 to carry vehicular traffic.Smith, Dwight A., James B. Norman, and Pieter T. Dykman. [http://cce.oregonstate.edu/about/history/mac/albany.htm "Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon".] Salem, Or: Oregon Dept. of Transportation, Environmental Section, 1985. p. 76.] Designed by state highway department bridge designer Conde McCullough, it was constructed by the Union Bridge Company based in Portland, Oregon. The steel truss structure was completed in 1926.Rollins, Ian. [http://www.democratherald.com/articles/2007/08/02/news/local/4aaa02_bridges.txt Are our bridges safe?] "Albany Democrat Herald", August 2 2007.]

When the bridge opened, the Albany-Corvallis Highway was completed. [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.or0301 American Memory: Built in America: Albany Bridge, Spanning Willamette River at U.S. Highway 20, Albany, Linn County, OR.] U.S. Library of Congress. Retrieved on April 21 2008.] At the time the structure was named the Albany Bridge. In 1973, the neighboring Lyon Street Bridge was completed to the east to expand capacity to a total of four lanes between the two bridges. Ellsworth Street Bridge was refurbished in 1971 and 2002. [http://nationalbridges.com/nbi_record.php?StateCode=41&struct=01025D031+01044 NBI Structure Number: 01025D031 01044.] NationalBridges.com. Retrieved on April 19 2008.] As of 2004, the bridge handled an average of 9,850 cars per day.

Details

Classified as functionally obsolete with a 53.8% sufficiency rating, the two-lane bridge carries eastbound traffic of U.S. Route 20 south into downtown Albany at milepost 10.44. The bridge’s main span consists of four steel thru-trusses in the Parker style, each convert|200|ft|m in length. Ellsworth Street Bridge is a total of convert|1090|ft|m long and convert|26|ft|m wide with a vertical clearance of convert|25|ft|m. The seven concrete approaches are of a girder design. The green colored bridge also has ornate concrete railings and entrance pylons. Ellsworth Street Bridge was of the few steel truss bridges completed while McCullough was in charge of bridge design in Oregon, and it is one of the few multi-span steel truss bridges remaining in the state.

ee also

*List of crossings of the Willamette River
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References

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place = Willamette River
bridge = Ellsworth Street Bridge
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upstream = Harrison Street Bridge
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downstream = Lyon Street Bridge
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