Ninth Street Bridge

1928

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Ninth Street Bridge
  • Title
  • Ninth Street Bridge
  • Creator
  • Johnston & Johnston
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B010.F04.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B010.F04.I01
  • Description
  • The Ninth Street Bridge, designed by Allegheny County architect Stanley L. Roush, was built by the County of Allegheny in 1928. Spanning the Allegheny River, this bridge has a total length (including the longest elevated ramp) of 995 feet and deck height of 40.3 feet. One of the “Three Sisters”, this bridge was part of a massive series of bridge-building campaigns begun in 1924 by the Allegheny County Department of Public Works and finished in the late 1930s by the Depression-period Allegheny County Authority. This self-anchored suspension bridge, the first of its type in the United States, had a main span of about 440 feet and instead of heavy anchorages to hold the cable ends, rigid towers hold the ends apart.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Ninth Street Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Allegheny River (Pa. And N.Y.)
    Bridges--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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