Mendota Bridge
44 885 - 93.173611Koordinaten: 44 ° 53 '6 " N, 93 ° 10' 25 " W
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The Mendota Bridge carries Minnesota State Route 55 over the Minnesota River between Fort Snelling and Mendota. It is the last road bridge over the Minnesota River before it flows at the site in the Mississippi River, which is called in the language of the Dakota " Mendota ", in German as " meeting of the waters". At the north end of the bridge the traffic to the Fort Road bridge can turn to where the Mississippi River crossing in the direction of St. Paul. When driving across the bridge you can about on the center at the same time recognize the silhouette of the Twin Cities.
History
The building was of C.A.P. Turner and Walter H. Wheeler designed. Turner and the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, Minnesota, and the Liberty Memorial Bridge was planned between Bismarck and Mandan, North Dakota.
When the bridge was built in 1926, it was the longest made of reinforced concrete arch bridge in the world. Although it is often referred to as a "mile -long bridge ," she is actually only 4119 feet or 1255 meters long. Since 1979, she is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Between 1940 and 1965, the Minnesota State Route 100 led over the bridge.
From 1992 to 1994, the bridge was rebuilt. This old structure was dismantled above the arches and built a new wider deck.
Swell
- National Bridge Inventory
- Road bridge in the United States
- Arch bridge
- Monument on the National Register of Historic Places (Minnesota)
- Built in the 1920s
- Bridge in Minnesota
- Hennepin County
- Dakota County ( Minnesota)