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Fifth Street Viaduct, Spanning Bacon's Quarter Branch Virginialley on Fifth Street, Richmond, Independent City, Virginia
Summary
Significance: The Fifth Street Viaduct is a reinforced concrete bridge consisting of seven double-span rigid frames supported on expansion piers and stiff towers. Built in 1933 by the Richmond Bridge Corporation with aid from the U.S. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the viaduct carries Fifth Street over Bacon's Quarter Branch valley to link the Richmond neighborhoods of Highland Park and Jackson Ward. A representative rigid frame reinforced concrete viaduct of the 1920-1940 period, the Fifth Street Viaduct is a significant multiple-span bridge designed by the prominent New York City bridge engineer Alfredo C. Janni.
Survey number: HAER VA-67
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Location
Richmond, Virginia, United States, 37.43157, -78.65689
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
