Mills Street Bridge

Photos 

MI-62-1

Photo taken by Howard Wright, February 1992, for HAER

View photos at Library of Congress

Map 

Facts 

Overview

Lost Closed-spandrel arch bridge over Kalamazoo on Mills in Kalamazoo

Location

Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan

Status

Replaced by new bridge

History

Built 1913; Replaced 1993

Builder

- Richard Heysick, Sr.

Design

"The Mills Street Bridge is an early example of a large, earth-filled concrete arch bridge. It has been determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places by the Michigan Bureau of History.

"This historic documentation was undertaken in November of 1995 in accordance with the Memorandum of Agreement by the Federal Highway Administration, Michigan State Historic Preservation Officer, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Michigan Department of Transportation and the City of Kalamazoo, Michigan as a mitigative measure prior to the demolition replacement of the bridge."

Patricia A. Fisher, Environmental cientist
WW Engineering & Science
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Dimensions

Length of largest span: 59.0 ft.
Total length: 212.0 ft.
Deck width: 32.0 ft.

Approximate latitude, longitude

+42.29333, -85.56639   (decimal degrees)
42°17'36" N, 85°33'59" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")

Approximate UTM coordinates

16/618182/4683340 (zone/easting/northing)

USGS topographic map

Kalamazoo

Inventory number

BH 37174 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Update Log 

• August 15, 2008: Updated by J.R. Manning: Fixed a typo
• August 14, 2008: Added by J.R. Manning

Sources 

• J.R. Manning - thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
• HAER MI-62 - Mills Street Bridge
• Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth

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