Fifth Street Viaduct, Spanning Bacon's Quarter Branch Valley on Fifth Street, Richmond — Detail, underside of deck, from below and north, showing structural configuration, including two large reinforced concrete longitudinal girders, floor beams and stringers
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- Library of Congress
- Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey
- Date:
- Documentation compiled after 1968
- Region:
- Richmond, Virginia
- Description:
- Photo(s): 23 | Data Page(s): 26 | Photo Caption Page(s): 4 Subjects: concrete girder bridges, tollhouses, concrete abutments, street lights, concrete piers, transportation, concrete parapets, reinforced concrete construction Locations: independent city, virginia, richmond Notes: Significance: 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. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1912 Survey number: HAER VA-67 Building/structure dates: 1996 Demolished Building/structure dates: 1933 Initial Construction
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