Grant Avenue Bridge, Spanning Yakima River at Grant Avenue, Prosser, Benton County, WA
Summary
Significance: The Grant Avenue Bridge is significant as the oldest and least altered example of a two span pin-connected Parker truss within the state. It is also the only existing highway bridge within the state that demonstrates the once common practice of erecting a short pony truss approach span in combination with longer through trusses.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1
Survey number: HAER WA-4
Building/structure dates: 1911 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Maloney, D C
Yearby, Jean P, transmitter
Kukas, Roger, photographer
Location
benton county, 46.21053, -119.77238
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