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Grand Avenue Viaduct
Description
The Grand Avenue Viaduct, Milwaukee's earliest example of a large scale concrete bridge, was the result of a national design competition which included entries from some of the most prominent architects and engineers of the day. The winning entry by The Concrete-Steel Engineering Company and by Palmer & Hornbostel of New York employed the Melan steel beam reinforcement method. The Art Deco bridge is of a barrel arch design and is a relatively late example of the Melan system. Second place in the competition went to a more innovative ribbed arch design by the well-known concrete engineer, C.A.P. Turner. City officials envisioned the viaduct as one link in a grand boulevard that would eventually connect Milwaukee with Madison, 100 miles to the west.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Open-spandrel arch bridge over North 44th Street, Canadian National Railway, Menomonee River, North 39th Street, Miller Brewing Co on Grand Avenue/Wisconsin Avenue
- Location
- Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1911; replaced 1993
- Builders
- - Concrete-Steel Engineering Co. of New York, New York (Designer)
- Gustav Steinhagen of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (Supervising Engineer)
- McCarthy Improvement Co. of Davenport, Iowa
- National Engineering & Construction Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Second Contractor)
- Newton Engineering Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Original Contractor)
- Palmer & Hornbostel of New York, New York (Designer)
- William Mueser of Moers, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (Designer)
- Design
- Open-spandrel arch
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +43.03878, -87.96655 (decimal degrees)
43°02'20" N, 87°57'60" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/421267/4765574 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Milwaukee
- Inventory number
- BH 64313 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 20, 2016: New photo from Dave King
Sources
- Luke
- HAER WI-27 - Grand Avenue Viaduct, West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com