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Kellogg Avenue Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pennsylvania through truss bridge over Little Miami River on US 52 (Kellogg Avenue)
- Location
- Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1922; damaged by flood during construction; opened in 1923; demolished in 1971
- Builder
- - Edward Scully Co. of Columbus, Ohio
- Design
- Pennsylvania through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.08609, -84.42174 (decimal degrees)
39°05'10" N, 84°25'18" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/723000/4329495 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Newport
- Inventory number
- BH 71096 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Comments
Kellogg Avenue Bridge
The Singing Bridge under siege----floods from 1937,1948,1949,1952, and 1964.
Kellogg Avenue Bridge
Here are some shots of this thing receiving it's steel floor post '37 flood, early 70's by-pass and subsequent inglorious finale.
Kellogg Avenue Bridge
Glad to see this majestic old beast make the pages here. After 45 years, the Singing Bridge lives again. The utter heartbreak I felt as a 5 year old upon finding the broken form of this thing in the river led me to a lifelong hobby.
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So the scene in 1926 shows no sign of the rail line the bridge was supposed to carry, and I have never found any evidence it ever did--but it was built rather wide for the times. The same scene in 1937 shows the bridge completely compromised. I can only assume with the roadway trashed that is why the Singing Bridge was born.