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Twyckenham Drive Bridge

St. Joseph County, Indiana

Photos 

From the east

7/2018

Photo taken by Jim Grey

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

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BH Photo #432852

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Facts 

Overview
Concrete arch bridge over St. Joseph River on Twyckenham Drive in South Bend
Location
South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1929; rehabilitated 1982
Design
Open-spandrel arch
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 115.1 ft.
Total length: 432.0 ft.
Deck width: 49.9 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.65944, -86.22528   (decimal degrees)
41°39'34" N, 86°13'31" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/564501/4612255 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
South Bend East
Average daily traffic (as of 2015)
6,261
Inventory numbers
INNBI 7100088 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 17059 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of September 2018)
Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 99.1 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com

Categories 

Arch (12,100)
Built 1929 (1,013)
Built during 1920s (9,922)
Deck arch (11,339)
Functionally obsolete (6,426)
Have street view (26,947)
Indiana (4,918)
NR-eligible (4,051)
Navigable waterway (2,152)
 Open (39,882)
Open-spandrel arch (760)
Select (530)
South Bend, Indiana (19)
Span length 100-125 feet (4,395)
St. Joseph County, Indiana (35)
St. Joseph River (37)
Total length 250-500 feet (5,225)

Update Log 

  • August 8, 2018: New photos from Jim Grey
  • October 7, 2013: New Street View added by Brent Tindall
  • April 28, 2009: New photos from Jim Grey

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Twyckenham Drive Bridge
Posted August 8, 2018, by Jim Grey (mobilene [at] gmail [dot] com)

That's right - "twi-ken-ham." And they did replace the railings in the renovation with ones that are more sympathetic to the design!

Twyckenham Drive Bridge
Posted March 2, 2010, by Anthony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

A beauty of a bridge with a tongue-twister of a name! I'm guessing it is pronounced "twi-ken-ham" but I may be way off.

It looks like the original railings are long gone, so maybe (if we hold our breath) they will give it new ones that look more like the original ones.

Twyckenham Drive Bridge
Posted March 2, 2010, by Jim Grey (mobilene [at] gmail [dot] com)

A project to replace this bridge's deck; repair piers, columns, and beams; and add new lights and railings started 3/1/2010. The project runs through June, 2011.