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Hawthorne Bridge

Multnomah County, Oregon
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Hawthorne Bridge

Photo taken by Michael Goff on July 6, 2008

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Overview
Vertical lift bridge over Willamette River on Hawthorne Blvd. in Portland
Location
Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1910; Rehabilitated 1944, Rehabilitated & Painted in 1999
Builders
- Pennsylvania Steel Co. of Steelton, Pennsylvania (Steel Fabricator)
- Robert Wakefield (Contractor)
- United Engineering and Construction (Contractor)
- Waddell & Harrington (Engineering Firm)
- Wakefield & Jacobson (Contractor)
Design
The Hawthrone Bridge is the oldest operational vertical lift bridge in the United States and the oldest large span highway bridge in Oregon. It is also the busiest bicycle and transit bridge in Oregon, with over 4,800 cyclists and 750 Tri-Met buses daily.
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 251.0 ft.
Total length: 1,382.9 ft.
Deck width: 43.6 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.7 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 2012
Also called
Hawthorne Street Bridge
Hawthorne Blvd. Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+45.51306, -122.67083   (decimal degrees)
45°30'47" N, 122°40'15" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
10/525710/5039999 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Portland
Inventory numbers
OR 02757 (Oregon Dept. of Transportation structure number)
NRHP 12000932 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 29877 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 06/2011)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 56.3 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
25,610

Categories 

Built 1910 (771)
Built during 1910s (6,974)
Functionally obsolete (7,111)
Have street view (12,874)
Movable (1,460)
Multnomah County, Oregon (67)
NR-listed (2,384)
Open (29,409)
Oregon (695)
Owned by county (16,720)
Pennsylvania Steel Co. (39)
Portland, Oregon (35)
Pratt through truss (3,292)
 Pratt truss (5,856)
Robert Wakefield (5)
Span length 250-500 feet (896)
Steel grate deck (382)
Through truss (9,587)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,274)
Truss (24,155)
United Engineering and Construction (1)
Vertical lift (280)
Waddell & Harrington (18)
Wakefield & Jacobson (1)
Willamette River (47)

Update Log 

  • September 8, 2010: New Street View added by Michael Goff
  • April 20, 2009: Posted HAER photos
  • September 29, 2008: New photos from Michael Goff
  • September 4, 2008: Updated by Michael Goff
  • July 8, 2008: Updated by Michael Goff
  • July 7, 2008: New photo from Michael Goff

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Sources 

  • James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
  • Mike Goff - michael [dot] goff [at] hotmail [dot] com
  • HAER OR-20 - Hawthorne Bridge, Spanning Willamette River at Hawthorne Boulevard &, Portland, Multnomah County, OR
  • Wikipedia - Hawthorne Bridge
  • Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon - Dwight A. Smith, James B. Norman & Pieter T. Dykman, Oregon Historical Society Press, 1989
  • Bridges of Portland - Ray Bottenberg, Arcadia Publishing, 2007
  • The Portland Bridge Book - Sharon Wood Wortman, Oregon Historical Society Press, 2001
  • Douglas Butler
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Hawthorne Bridge
Posted August 6, 2013, by Douglas Butler (drawbridges [at] lycos [dot] com)

Hawthorne bridge drawing.

Webmaster's note: The photos that were here have been incorporated into the main site.

Hawthorne Avenue Bridge
Posted November 17, 2009, by Michael Goff (michael [dot] goff [at] odot [dot] state [dot] or [dot] us)

Hawthorne Boulevard (and thus the bridge) was named after Dr. J.C. Hawthorne, the cofounder of Oregon's first mental hospital and early proponent for the first Morrison Bridge.

This is from the Wikipedia article for the Hawthorne Bridge

Hawthorne Avenue Bridge
Posted November 16, 2009, by Randall DeWitt (scott4402 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

Who was this bridge named after? Maybe Charles Hawthorne WWII