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Brown Street Bridge
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Brown Street Bridge
Journal and Courier: June 11 1958
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BH Photo #444018
Description
Built in 1903 to replace a covered bridge destroyed by fire. Damaged by flooding in 1913. Rebuilt in 1913. Closed in 1973. Demolished in 1974.
Parker through truss built in 1913 by the Attica Bridge Company
Abutments appear to have been reused from the 1840's covered bridge with concrete caps added to raise the height.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Parker/Pratt through truss bridge over Wabash River on Brown Street
- Location
- West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
- Status
- Removed but not replaced
- History
- Built 1903. Closed 1973. Demolished 1974.
- Builder
- - Attica Bridge Co. of Attica, Indiana (1913 Parker truss)
- Design
- 8-panel Parker through truss
(3)7-panel Pratt through trusses
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.42194, -86.89694 (decimal degrees)
40°25'19" N, 86°53'49" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/508742/4474595 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 84530 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 17, 2020: New photos from Tony Dillon
- February 25, 2019: New photos from Melissa Brand-Welch
- February 24, 2019: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added stuff
- February 24, 2019: Added by Melissa Brand-Welch
Sources
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
As always, Thanks Tony. I quite enjoyed this one.