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Old 95th Street Bridge

Cook County, Illinois
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95th Street Bridge, 1955

Copelin Commercial Photographers, 95th Street Bridge, James S. Parker and Chicago Photography (University of Illinois at Chicago)

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)

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Description 

Among the first fixed trunnion bascule bridges built in Chicago

Facts 

Overview
Lost bascule truss bridge over Calumet River on 95th Street
Location
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
Built 1902
Design
Pratt through truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.72286, -87.54310   (decimal degrees)
41°43'22" N, 87°32'35" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/454827/4619149 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Lake Calumet
Inventory number
BH 52815 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Bascule (560)
Built 1902 (247)
Built during 1900s (4,266)
Chicago, Illinois (99)
Cook County, Illinois (168)
Illinois (2,501)
Lost (10,487)
Lost 1958 (14)
 Lost during 1950s (104)
Movable (1,360)
Pratt through truss (3,184)
Pratt truss (5,687)
Replaced by new bridge (7,211)
Through truss (9,250)
Truss (23,609)

Update Log 

  • July 5, 2012: Added by Frank Hicks

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