11th Street Bridge

Photos

View of Bridge

Photo taken before bridge widened in 1929.

Photo from Beryl Ford Collection/Tulsa Rotary Club, Tulsa City-County Library and Tulsa Historical Society.

BH Photo #126380

Overview: Bypassed open-spandrel arch bridge over Arkansas River formerly carrying Southwest Blvd. (US 66) in Tulsa
Location: Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma
Status: Closed to all traffic but preserved as a Route 66 historic site
History: Built 1916; widened 1929; bypassed 1978.
Builder: - Harrington, Howard & Ash of Kansas City, Kansas & New York, New York
Design: Open-spandrel arch
Dimensions: Total length: 1,470.0 ft.
Recognition: Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on December 13, 1996
Also called: Cyrus S. Avery Memorial Bridge
Cyrus Avery Route 66 Memorial Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude: +36.14273, -96.00502 (decimal degrees)
36°08'34" N, 96°00'18" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 14/769480/4003936 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Sand Springs
Elevation: 620 ft. above sea level
Inventory numbers: NRHP 96001488 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 37679 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Eleventh Street Bridge

Posted May 23, 2009, by Gene McCluney (mccluney [at] sbcglobal [dot] net)

Man, that is a hard bridge to attempt to photograph now. Bridges flank it on either side, and there is no parking for blocks in each direction.