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Twenty-first Street Bridge, Spanning Railroad tracks at Twenty-first Street, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

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Twenty-first Street Bridge, Spanning Railroad tracks at Twenty-first Street, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

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Significance: The Twenty-First Street Bridge is a 1,272-foot-long through Parker truss and through Pony truss featuring pineapple finials atop its portals. It is a little-altered surviving example of a late 19th century steel truss bridge. Bridges of this age are rare in Missouri.
Survey number: HAER MO-11
Building/structure dates: 1892 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1976

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1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Gayler , Carl
Stifel
Ruckert
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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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