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General Information

Completion: 1916
Status: in use

Project Type

Structure: Rall bascule bridge
Function / usage: Road bridge

Location

Location: , ,
Address: Hanover Street
Crosses:
  • Patapsco River
Coordinates: 39° 15' 28.08" N    76° 36' 58.68" W
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Technical Information

Dimensions

total length 698.0 m

Notes

While the bridge appears to be an open spandrel arch form, it is really constructed with structural steel cantilevering out from the supports and encased in concrete.

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Hanover Street Bridge – officially, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge – is a bascule bridge crossing the middle branch of the Patapsco River along Hanover Street (Maryland Route 2) in Baltimore, Maryland.

View south driving across the bridge

The bridge was built to replace the mile-long "Long Bridge" built by Richard Cromwell in 1856 to move products from his orchard in Anne Arundel County to downtown Baltimore.

The Hanover Street Bridge connects the southern base of the industrialized South Baltimore to the neighborhood of Cherry Hill and Brooklyn. The bridge carries five lanes of traffic: two northbound, two southbound, and one reversible. It employs a lane control system and carries two sidewalks on either side.

Designed by J. E. Greiner Company, the bridge was constructed in 1916 and is characterized as a Beaux Arts-style reinforced cantilever bridge. It is known for its beautiful arches as it spans the water. In the center of the bridge is a drawbridge span surrounded on four corners by classic style towers which lend it a distinctive appearance. The bridge is 2,290 feet (700 m) long.

On May 30, 1993, Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke officially renamed the bridge the "Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge".

In the 1990s, the area under the bridge became the site of a rough and sometimes murderously violent "tent city" campsite for the homeless.

As of January 2016, the bridge is in a state of disrepair, riddled with numerous potholes – some exposing the rebar below.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Hanover Street Bridge" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

Participants

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20007996
  • Published on:
    07/02/2003
  • Last updated on:
    05/02/2016
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