Market Street Bridge
Photos
The Market Street Bridge
As seen from Steubenville, Ohio. This bridge crosses the Ohio River from Steubenville to WV 2, just south of Weirton, WV.
Photo taken by J.R. Manning in October 2007
BH Photo #110603
Facts
- Overview
- Suspension bridge over the Ohio River on WV 2 Spur (Market Street) in Steubenville
- Location
- Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, and Brooke County, West Virginia
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1905 by the Ohio Steel Erection Company; rehabilitated 1981 and 2011
- Builders
- - Ohio Steel Erection Co.
- Penn Bridge Co. of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
- Design
- Wire suspension with quadrangular Warren through truss with
verticals - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 700.2 ft.
Total length: 1,794.1 ft.
Deck width: 20.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 11.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on March 21, 2019
- Also called
- Steubenville Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.35815, -80.60873 (decimal degrees)
40°21'29" N, 80°36'31" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/533223/4467583 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Steubenville East
- Inventory numbers
- ODOT 4100964 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
NRHP 100003517 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 35026 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 26, 2020: Updated by Roger Deschner: Added to NRHP
- September 11, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- May 18, 2019: New photos from Dana and Kay Klein
- October 6, 2013: Updated by C Hanchey: Added category "Ohio Department of Transportation Historic Bridge List "
- October 1, 2013: New Street View added by Michael Miller
- January 27, 2012: Updated by C Hanchey: Corrected bridge construction date and added bridge builder
- August 17, 2011: New photos from Luke Harden
- January 30, 2008: New photos from J.R. Manning
Sources
- J.R. Manning - thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Luke
- Wayne Grodkiewicz - WGrodkiewi [at] aol [dot] com
- C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Todd Wilson
- Michael Miller - michael_a_miller [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Geoff Hubbs
- Roger Deschner - rogerdeschner [at] gmail [dot] com
- Wikipedia
- The Herald Star - Market Street Bridge a local treasure
- The Bridgehunter's Chronicles - Market Street Bridge named a National Historic Landmark
- WTRF CBS Channel 7 - Market Street Bridge named a National Historic Landmark
Comments
The bridge is now open again. I took a couple of pics the other day, and attached them. However, I see that you've already taken some shots of the new paint job. They even added blue neon lights to the top chords of the trusses along with the lights on the main cables- it looks great at night.
Here are some shots of the Market Street Bridge from 8 August 2011. The bridge is closed to traffic and is being worked on. It is now a blue and yellow color as you can see. Hopefully this means it will be around for a while longer.
Webmaster's note: The photos that were here have been incorporated into the main site.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/oh/jefferson/market-street/
Now, if they would only complete the look by installing replicas of the long-lost ornate portal cresting, tower cresting, and decorative tower finials...