Rating:
49133
{51}%
2 votes
17th Street Bridge (Old)
Photos
Looking southwest
Photo taken by Robert Thompson in July 2011
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BH Photo #204468
Description
2011: This bridge is a working bascule bridge; the commercial fishing fleet passes through it daily.
2013: The existing bridge was replaced with a new, single-leaf bascule bridge.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Deck plate girder bridge over East Twin River on 17th Street
- Location
- Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1949 replaced 2013
- Builder
- - McMillan & Pitz Construction of Manitowoc, Wisconsin
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +44.14868, -87.56370 (decimal degrees)
44°08'55" N, 87°33'49" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/454918/4888541 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Two Rivers
- Elevation
- 585 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 49133 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 18, 2011: Added by Robert Thompson
Another Wisconsin historic bridge bulldozed. It doesn't even compute how you can let a 1940s bascule deteriorate to the point of needing to be replaced... especially if you consider how expensive it is to build a new bascule bridge. Movable bridges are uniquely expensive. Michigan has a couple bridges of the same vintage and same designer that are in great shape.
http://www.historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowse...
http://www.historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowse...