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| Object Name | Siuslaw River Bridge (Florence, Oregon)
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| View | view of concrete ornament |
| Creator/Role | Conde Balcom McCullough (engineer, 1887-1946)
Mercer-Fraser Company (builder/contractor)
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| Creator | McCullough, Conde B.
Mercer-Fraser Company
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| Date | 1936
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| Decade | 1930-1939
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| City | Florence
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| County | Lane
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| State/Province | Oregon
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| Country | United States
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| Photograph Date | 1985
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| Photographer | Michael E. Shellenbarger (1937-1993)
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| Cataloger | Edward H. Teague |
| Object Type | architecture
built works
bridges (built works)
bascule bridges
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| Signficance | National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2005) |
| Reference | Smith, Dwight A. Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1989; Conde Balcom McCullough (1887-1946), Oregon Encyclopedia, http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/conde_balcom_mccullough/ |
| Notes | The Siuslaw River Bridge is a bascule bridge that spans the Siuslaw River on U.S. Route 101 in Florence, Oregon. It was designed by Conde McCullough, built by the Mercer-Fraser Company of Eureka, California, and funded by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (later renamed the Public Works Administration). It opened in 1936. The bridge's total length is 1,568 feet (478 m). When open, the 140-foot (43 m) double-leaf bascule provides 110 feet (34 m) of horizontal clearance for boat traffic. The bascule section is flanked by two 154-foot (47 m) reinforced concrete tied arches, identical to those used in the original Alsea Bay Bridge. Four Art Deco-style obelisks house mechanical equipment as well as living quarters for the bridge operator. The total cost of the bridge was $527,000. |
| Metadata Notes | Description of this work is based initially on documentation supplied by the image provider. It is often the case with gift slides that very little information is provided. Review and updating of descriptive information by the collection cataloger is ongoing. |
| Digital Collection | Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon & the Pacific Northwest
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| Source Collection | Architecture & Allied Arts Library, University of Oregon Libraries, http://library.uoregon.edu/aaa/ |
| Image Source | Gift of Michael Shellenbarger |
| Publisher | University of Oregon Libraries |
| Copyright | © University of Oregon. This image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ ). Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is required.. All rights reserved. |
| File Name | pna_15823.jpg |
