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Calvert Street Bridge
Description
Reportedly, three lion sculptures from this bridge were removed in 1957 and eventually ended up in a small park in Bolton Hill adjacent to the Francis Scott Key Monument.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Bowstring Truss Bridge on Calvert Street
- Location
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Status
- Demolished
- History
- Built 1878. Demolished ca. 1970s.
- Builder
- - Charles H. Latrobe of Baltimore, Maryland (Engineer)
- Design
- Bowstring pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 146.0 ft.
Total length: 600.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.30678, -76.61339 (decimal degrees)
39°18'24" N, 76°36'48" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/360895/4352061 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Baltimore East
- Inventory number
- BH 71878 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 6, 2020: New photo from Art Suckewer
- July 10, 2018: New photos from Nathan Holth
- July 10, 2018: Updated by Alexander D. Mitchell IV: Corrected misspelling in "name" category
- July 9, 2018: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added build date, lengths, and bridge type, per historical article.
- April 19, 2016: Added by ArtS
Sources
- Art Suckewer - Asuckewer [at] knite [dot] com
- Nathan Holth
- Historical Article Discussing Bridge
- Calvert Street Bridge Lions at Monument City Blog - Branches of Baltimore History
- Alexander D. Mitchell IV
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Trish Kane of the Burr Covered Bridge Resource Center in Oxford, NY sent me some amazing photos of this bridge and the nearby long-gone St. Paul Street Bridge http://bridgehunter.com/md/baltimore-city/st-paul-street/
This bridge had a plaque and its fancy text is hard to read, but looks like noted engineer C. H. Latrobe to me. I assume he did the St. Paul Street Bridge also, but I don't have 100% proof of that yet, so for that bridge I listed him as the assumed engineer.
These were really unusual heavy-duty bowstring truss bridges.