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Lafayette Road Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Concrete arch bridge over Eagle Creek Reservoir on Lafayette Road in Indianapolis
- Location
- Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
- Status
- Demolished; replaced 2009
- History
- Built about 1925; widened to four lanes about 1935
- Design
- Closed-spandrel concrete arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 64.9 ft.
Total length: 204.0 ft.
Deck width: 46.2 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.88750, -86.30028 (decimal degrees)
39°53'15" N, 86°18'01" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/559826/4415505 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Zionsville
- Inventory numbers
- INNBI 4900002 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 16575 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 3, 2009: Updated by Jim Grey: Noted as demolished
- April 28, 2009: Updated by Jim Grey
Sources
- Jim Grey - mobilene [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Lafayette Road Bridge
This bridge was demolished in 2009. The bridge was originally very narrow but carried two lanes, but was widened to four lanes. My understanding is that the original bridge was built in the 1920s and the widening happened in the 1930s.
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Found some photos I took of the bridge being demolished. First photo shows the deck removed and the old exterior wall of the original bridge inside the structure. Second photo shows the bridge half demolished. Third photo, from the same day, shows the half-bridge with the deck removed and arches exposed.
Webmaster's note: The photos that were here have been incorporated into the main site.