Gervais Street Bridge

33,995 - 81.053055555556Koordinaten: 33 ° 59 '42 " N, 81 ° 3' 11 " W

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U.S. Highway 1, U.S. Highway 378

Congaree River

The Gervais Street Bridge is a historic road bridge in Columbia, South Carolina in the United States. The arched bridge built of concrete was built in the years 1926 until 1928. Since 1980 she has been on the National Register of Historic Places entered.

In the structure is the third bridge over the Congaree River at this point. The first bridge was built about 1827 and burned down during the Civil War. The new building of 1870 was replaced by the present building. At that time, the bridge was the widest road construction in the state. It remained until 1953 the only bridge over this river.

Architecture

The Bridge is an arch bridge made ​​of reinforced concrete with open spandrels. The road leading through it is flanked on both sides by walkways. On the balustrades on the sides of the bridge sit green-painted, cast-iron lanterns with fastening element are provided with a C and palmettos. The octagonal base of the column is decorated with vine leaf motifs, and the cross -sectional reductions adorns Akanthuslaubwerk. The building is one of four reinforced concrete bridges in South Carolina with open spandrels and also the oldest and the most lavishly decorated of the three bridges that cross the Congaree River.

Geography

The Gervais Street Bridge is located in Columbia, South Carolina. It leads U.S. Highway 1 and U.S. Highway 378 over the Congaree River and connects the city within the Gervais Street on the east bank of the Meeting Street on the west bank of the river. Nationally, the bridge forms the connection Columbia and the southern and western parts of the state. The bridge is just a piece below the point form on the Broad River and Saluda River together the Congaree River.

History

In the structure is the third bridge, which was built on this site; the remains of the previous two structures are directly north of the present Gervais Street Bridge still recognizable.

In the first building there was a wooden structure. 1819 Columbia Bridge Company was founded, and the construction of the bridge was completed around 1827. Although the early city planners Columbia intended that Senate Street and Assembly Street should be the two main thoroughfares of the city, but for engineering reasons, the bridge over the Congaree River was built at the head of the Gervais Street, which ran past the traffic to the Senate Street. Hence, this was while concentrated to a residential area to the Gervais Street trade and commerce; This effect was later strengthened with the arrival of the built railway lines.

The Confederate States Army burned down the first bridge towards the end of the Civil War in 1865 to delay the advance of the troops of General William T. Sherman. The second bridge structure was built in 1870 and until 1912 was in private ownership. Then it was purchased in cooperation with the Lexington County by the Administration of Richland counties.

The construction work for today's construction lasted from February 1926 until June 1928. The building was designed by the Bridge engineer of the State Highway Department, Joseph W. Barnwell of Charleston, the building contractor was the Hardaway Contracting Company of Columbus, Georgia.

When the building was completed, led over the bridge the widest stretch of road in the state. The bridge was on 25 November 1980 as part of the Historic Resources of Columbia MPS in the National Register of Historic Places.

Documents

• Built in the 1920s
• Arch bridge
• Columbia (South Carolina)
• Lexington County
• Monument on the National Register of Historic Places (South Carolina)
• Bridge in South Carolina
• Road bridge in the United States