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Fourth Street Bridge, Spanning Lorena Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

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Fourth Street Bridge, Spanning Lorena Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

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Summary

Significance: Fourth Street Bridge over Lorena Street and Bernal Avenue is significant as one of a group of bridges constructed in a planned effort by the City of Los Angeles to undertake monumental bridge construction that reflected the aesthetic and social ideas of the City Beautiful Movement. The bridge is also significant as an engineering achievement in catenary arch, reinforced concrete, bridge construction, and as a complex grade separation that assured the flow of traffic from Fourth Street downtown to East Los Angeles.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N853
Survey number: HAER CA-279
Building/structure dates: 1927-1928 Initial Construction

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Butler, Merrill
Shaw, John C
Huot, Louis
Thomas Kelley & Sons
Ammer, Erin, field team
Currie, Jason, field team
Day, Grant, field team
Greenwood, David, field team
Larson, Heather, field team
DeLony, Eric N, project manager
O'Connell, Kristen, transmitter
Lee, Portia, historian
Grogan, Brian, photographer
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Location

Los Angeles, California, United States34.02674, -118.20167
Google Map of 34.02673559999999, -118.2016712
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Source

Library of Congress
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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

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