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Item Title
Benson Street Concrete Bowstring Bridge, Spanning Mill Creek at Benson Street, Lockland, Hamilton County, OH
LocationSpanning Mill Creek at Benson Street,
Lockland, OH
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER OH-50
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-11).
Building/structure dates:
1910 initial construction
Significance: The Benson Street Concrete Bowstring Bridge is important because it may be the first example of a through bridge of this design to be built in America. It was constructed in 1909 (not 1920 as was once thought) and therefore predated James Barney Marsh's influential patent for a concrete bowstring by two years. Although designed by E.A. Gast, it actually may have inspired Marsh at the time when he was working on his own designs. Concrete bowstring bridges were not generally popular in America until about 1920. The bridge is listed as a "reserve pool bridge" in the Ohio Department of Transportation's Ohio Historic Bridge Inventory Evaluation and Preservation Plan.
Related Names
Gast, E. A.
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. VIEW OF CONCRETE ARCHES FROM LOCKLAND SIDE
2. VIEW OF ARCHES FROM READING SIDE
3. 3/4 VIEW OF BRIDGE FROM READING SIDE, SHOWING ARCHES AND PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY
4. SIDE VIEW OF BRIDGE, LOOKING SOUTHWEST, SHOWING ARCHES, CANTILEVERED WALKWAY, DECK BEAMS AND STREAMBED
5. DETAIL VIEW OF JUNCTURE BETWEEN ARCH, AND ABUTMENT, SHOWING CANTILEVERED WALKWAY AND DECK BEAMS ON UNDERSIDE OF BRIDGE
6. DETAIL VIEW AT ROAD LEVEL, SHOWING STEEL-DECK GRATING AND JUNCTURE OF ARCH AND PAVEMENT
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