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Overview from northwest |
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West portal |
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East portal |
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Deck view |
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East span |
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East approach |
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Deck truss span |
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Main span truss |
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West span truss |
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Behind east portal |
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Downtown skyline |
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Piers |
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Underneath |
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Rehabilitation plaque |
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Aerial view in 1998 These black-and-white photos were taken Feb. 1998 by George Hornal for the Historic American Engineering Record. They show the bridge before rehabilitation, when it still carried vehicular traffic |
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West portal |
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Deck truss span The eastern deck truss span was originally enclosed in the now-demolished Nashville Bridge Co. Building |
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East Approach Photo taken by James McCray in December 2007 |
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East Portal Photo taken by James McCray in December 2007 |
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From the Eastern Observation Deck Photo taken by James McCray in December 2007 |
Facts
- Overview
- Three-span through truss bridge over Cumberland River on Shelby Street in downtown Nashville
- Location
- Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Built 1907-09; rehabilitated for pedestrian use in 2003
- Builders
- - Foster-Creighton-Gould Co.
- Howard M. Jones
- J.D. Foy of Dothan, Alabama
- Design
- Parker through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 317.8 ft.
Total length: 2,265.5 ft.
Deck width: 36.4 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Sparkman Street Bridge
Broadway Bridge (original official name) - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.16207, -86.77221 (decimal degrees)
36°09'43" N, 86°46'20" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/520487/4001948 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Nashville West
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 86003237 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 32490 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
- 13,860
Sources
- Wikipedia
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com