Brecksville-Northfield High Level Bridge
Photos
Center Spans From Southeast
Photo taken May 1985 by Jet Lowe for the Historic American Engineering Record
Description
The significance is in terms of aesthetics. The bridge is an attractive concrete, multi-arched bridge.-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Five-span open-spandrel arch bridge over the Cuyahoga River on OH 82
- Location
- Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and Summit County, Ohio
- Status
- Open to two-lane traffic
- History
- Built 1930-31 under the supervision of A.M. Felgate and W.S. Hindman; rehabilitated 1989
- Design
- Open-spandrel arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 181.1 ft.
Total length: 1,130.0 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.32130, -81.58699 (decimal degrees)
41°19'17" N, 81°35'13" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/450873/4574591 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Northfield
- Inventory numbers
- ODOT 7706871 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 27428 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 09/2011)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 94.1 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
- 13,610
Update Log
- May 1, 2012: Additional HAER photos posted by James Baughn
- May 1, 2012: Updated by Nathan Holth: Merged NBI Data
- November 15, 2011: Updated by Bill Eichelberger: Mapped.
- August 20, 2005: Posted photos from Jonathan Maxwell and from the Historic American Engineering Record
Sources
- Jonathan Maxwell - themaxwellshouse [at] roadrunner [dot] com
- Bill Eichelberger
- Nathan Holth
- HAER OH-66 - Brecksville-Northfield High Level Bridge, Spanning Cuyahoga River Between Brecksville & Northfield, Brecksville, Cuyahoga County, OH
Comments
Oh please...if they really wanted explosives, they would have gotten them. I don't understand how buying fakes from the FBI is worse than actually blowing up a bridge with real explosives and because they bought the fakes, it proved they were serious enough about it to go through with it. At least they (the FBI) are actually doing something productive by catching these scumbags rather than spying on innocent civilians.
Looks like we have a little conundrum here. It appears that the FBI provoked these individuals into having sentiments of terrorism: http://rt.com/usa/news/cleveland-fbi-bomb-may-433/
I have no animosity toward state "workers"...as a matter of fact I worked as an inspector for a small engineering firm, but reported directly to INDOT and worked with many good people.
I, like most people on this site, just want to see our transportation heritage treated with respect...which it IS NOT. I understand that not every one of these spans can be saved, but there are way too many that are needlessly destroyed.
And just as I don't want to see terrorists blow up a bridge (of any kind), I also don't want to watch an historic bridge blown up on You Tube.
That was far from the only stupid comment about state workers on here. Not to worry, though. The next time you guys are a topic of conversation on one of my projects will be the first time.
It's comments such as that one that are the reason why state DOTs hate us.
Shame on them. Those clowns deserved to be pushed off the bridge for that, as with all terrorists
A bunch of morons tried to blow up this bridge: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j46RroINNjjLq8sO0kRXbgXRxb7w?docId=997a1a16f06b4d6b8d322397ff38414f
The bridge is located between Brecksville and SAGAMORE HILLS, not Northfield.
You will find that W. S. Hindman was involved with the Ohio Stadium as Field Engineer and Chief Engineer. He wrote two articles for "The Ohio State Engineer" about the Ohio Stadium. W. S. Hindman was also the designer and builder of Pitt Stadium in Pittsburgh.
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