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Junction Hollow Bridge

1951-08

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Junction Hollow Bridge
  • Title
  • Junction Hollow Bridge
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B011.F03.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B011.F03.I01
  • Description
  • A construction crew working on the Junction Hollow Bridge along the Penn-Lincoln Parkway (Interstate 376), known locally as the Parkway East. The Junction Hollow Bridge, or Frazier Street Bridge as it is officially known, has two spans of 264 feet, three spans of 176 feet and one skew span over Swinburne Street. The total length, including the longest elevated ramp, is 1,060 feet. The height of the deck is 86 feet at Boundary Street, 60 feet at the CSX Railroad and 24 feet at Swinburne Street. Construction began on November 14, 1949, and was completed on October 15, 1952, at a cost of $1.85 million by B. Perini & Sons, Inc., of Framingham, Massachusetts. This is the only truss bridge constructed by the Pennsylvania Department of Highways along the length of the Penn-Lincoln Parkway.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Junction Hollow Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Penn-Lincoln Parkway.
    Interstate 376.
    Jones &
    Laughlin Steel Corporation.Pittsburgh Works.
    Frazier Street Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Highway construction--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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