Main Street
Bridge
Built in 1910, the Main Street Bridge is
the shortest of all the Los Angeles River bridges at just 280
feet. This reinforced concrete arch bridge exhibits
character-defining features of Beaux-Arts bridge design. Located on
North Main Street as it crosses the Los Angeles River between
Lincoln Heights and Downtown Los Angeles, the bridge rests on two
vertical piers in an open spandrel arch forming three arch spans.
The arches exhibit arch keystones at their center as well as
denticulation on the upper portion of the piers. The deck of the
bridge has a modernized concrete rail of stamped arched
forms.
The bridge is the earliest of the
monumental bridges built across the Los Angeles River, and one of
only two dating to the first decade of the 20th century. When
constructed in 1910, the Main Street Bridge was the only reinforced
concrete 3-hinged bridge west of the Mississippi
River.
Please visit
the other caches in the Los Angeles River Bridge
series:
Washington Blvd Bridge
1931
Others will show here after they are
moved to comply with gc.com guidelines.