Fifth Street Viaduct

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Environment, From West, Showing Fifth Street Viaduct In Its Immediate Setting, Crossing Bacon's Quarter Branch Valley In Richmond, Virginia

Photo taken for the Historic American Engineering Record

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BH Photo #312388

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Description

The Fifth Street Viaduct is a reinforced concrete bridge consisting of seven double-span rigid frames supported on expansion piers and stiff towers. Built in 1933 by the Richmond Bridge Corporation with aid from the U.S. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the viaduct carries Fifth Street over Bacon's Quarter Branch valley to link the Richmond neighborhoods of Highland Park and Jackson Ward. A representative rigid frame reinforced concrete viaduct of the 1920-1940 period, the Fifth Street Viaduct is a significant multiple-span bridge designed by the prominent New York City bridge engineer Alfredo C. Janni.

-- Historic American Engineering Record

Facts

Overview: Lost Concrete rigid frame bridge over CSX Railroad & Valley Road on 5th Street
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Status: Replaced by a new bridge
History: Built 1935; Replaced 1996
Builders: - Alfredo C. Janni
- T.A. Loving Co. of Goldsboro, North Carolina
Railroads: - Streetcar
- Virginia Electric & Power Co. (VEPCO)
- Virginia Transit Co. (VTC)
Design: Concrete rigid frame
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 80.1 ft.
Total length: 1,185.1 ft.
Deck width: 29.9 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +37.55251, -77.42766 (decimal degrees)
37°33'09" N, 77°25'40" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 18/285552/4158937 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Richmond
Inventory numbers: VA 21300 (Virginia bridge number)
BH 65277 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Update Log

January 4, 2015: Added by Dave King

Related Bridges

Northside Viaduct (Predecessor)

Sources

Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
HAER VA-67 - Fifth Street Viaduct, Spanning Bacon's Quarter Branch Valley on Fifth Street, Richmond, Independent City, VA