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- Notes:
- This bridge also known as the Falls View or Upper Steel Arch Bridge, was built from 1895 to 1898 to replace the Falls View Suspension Bridge (a.k.a. Niagara-Clifton Suspension Bridge) due to an increase in railway traffic. It was designed by Leffert L. Buck and it was built around the existing suspension bridge (which was later moved to the Queenston-Lewiston site). It was destroyed in 1938 when an ice jam on the river damaged the hinges of the arch, causing the bridge to collapse. For more information see: Spanning Niagara: The International Bridges 1848-1962 (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1984).
- Date Issued:
- [1895 TO 1898]
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
- Notes:
- In 1876 the City of London Corporation organized for another bridge to be built over the Thames and held a competition for the bridge design. Horace Jones and John Wolfe Barry's design was chosen in 1884 and the bridge was completed in 1894. It was the largest bascule bridge of its time and had steam-powered engines for lifting the bascules. For more information see: Tower Bridge Exhibition at http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/TBE/EN/BridgeHistory/
- Date Issued:
- 1894-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
- Notes:
- This bridge also known as the Falls View or Upper Steel Arch Bridge, was built from 1895 to 1898 to replace the Falls View Suspension Bridge (a.k.a. Niagara-Clifton Suspension Bridge) due to an increase in railway traffic. It was designed by Leffert L. Buck and it was built around the existing suspension bridge (which was later moved to the Queenston-Lewiston site). It was destroyed in 1938 when an ice jam on the river damaged the hinges of the arch, causing the bridge to collapse. For more information see: Spanning Niagara: The International Bridges 1848-1962 (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1984).
- Date Issued:
- [1895 TO 1898]
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
- Notes:
- The first bridge was built from 1887 to 1888 as a three-span Whipple through truss. It was rebuilt as a Pennsylvania through truss in 1915.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
- Notes:
- Due to the increasing weight and train traffic the Michigan Central RR Bridge was built to replace the Michigan Central Cantilever Bridge. Its construction was delayed by WWI, but it was completed in 1925 by Michigan Central's engineer H. Isben and still exists today. For more information see: Spanning Niagara: The International Bridges 1848-1962 (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1984).
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
- Notes:
- Built for the Oregon Trunk Railway, at 320 feet above the river it was the highest arch bridge in the U.S. at the time.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
- Notes:
- From the early 19th century on many plans had been proposed for building a bridge at this site, but it was not until the early 20th century that plans for a bridge began to be carried out. Many commissions and committees in both Pensylvania and New Jersey were formed and in 1918 the consulting engineers Waddell and Son were hired to examine the possibility of a Delware River crossing. In 1919 the states of Philadelphia and New Jersey worked together to create the Delaware River Bridge Joint Commission and they were given permission to build. The chief engineer for the bridge was Ralph Modjeski with Clement E. Chase as assistant engineer, Leon S. Moisseiff as the engineer of design, and Paul P. Cret as the architect. By 1921 a site for the bridge was chosen and construction began in January of 1922. The bridge opened on July 1, 1926 and is today known as the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. For more information see: Delaware River Port Authority, The Delaware River Bridge Twenty-Fifth Anniversary (not published, 1951).
- Date Issued:
- [1921 TO 1926]
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
