General Information
| Completion: | 1923 |
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| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Structure: |
Deck arch bridge |
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| Function / usage: |
Road bridge |
| Material: |
Reinforced concrete bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA |
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| Address: | East Grand Boulevard |
| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 42° 20' 33" N 82° 59' 55" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| width | 26 m | |
| total length | 668 m | |
| number of arches | 19 |
Materials
| arches |
reinforced concrete
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
The MacArthur Bridge is a bridge that spans the Detroit River between Detroit, Michigan and Belle Isle. The bridge, which features nineteen total arches across 2,193 feet (668 m), provides main access to Belle Isle. Completed in 1923 for $2,635,000 USD, it replaced an iron bridge with wooden decking that accidentally caught fire and was destroyed in 1915. The bridge, popularly known as the Belle Isle Bridge, was originally named the George Washington Bridge and later renamed the Douglas MacArthur Bridge after General Douglas MacArthur in 1942. It was restored in 1986 at a cost of $11.5 million.
In 1913, William Edmund Scripps (of the Scripps publishing family), flew a Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company flying boat underneath the original Belle Isle Bridge.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "MacArthur Bridge (Detroit)" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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data sheet - Structure-ID
20013334 - Published on:
12/09/2004 - Last updated on:
05/02/2016
