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Lowry Avenue Bridge (1905)

Hennepin County, Minnesota

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Photo provided by the City Of Minneapolis Archives

License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

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Map 

Facts 

Overview
Lost Camelback through truss bridge over Mississippi River on Lowry Avenue
Location
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
Built 1905; Replaced 1958
Builder
- Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co. of Minneapolis, Minnesota (steel fabricator of bridge superstructure)
Design
Camelback through truss
Also called
32nd Ave North (name when built)
Approximate latitude, longitude
+45.01306, -93.27451   (decimal degrees)
45°00'47" N, 93°16'28" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/478369/4984438 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Minneapolis North
Inventory number
BH 68979 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Built 1905 (824)
Built during 1900s (7,682)
Camelback truss (414)
Hennepin County, Minnesota (207)
Lost (29,036)
Lost 1958 (106)
Lost during 1950s (925)
 Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co. (35)
Minneapolis, Minnesota (149)
Minnesota (1,652)
Owned by city (6,109)
Replaced by new bridge (19,738)
Through truss (17,174)
Truss (35,919)

Update Log 

  • February 19, 2021: Updated by Martin Johnson: Added Bridge fabricator, original name, and number of spans.
  • August 26, 2015: Added by Luke

Related Bridges 

Sources 

  • Luke
  • Martin Johnson

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