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- Creator Display
- Conde Balcom McCullough (engineer, 1887-1946)
- Mercer-Fraser Company (builder/contractor)
- Creator
- Photographer
- Date
- 1936
- Description
- National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2005)
- View
- view of concrete ornament
- View Date
- 1985
- Temporal
- 1930-1939
- MODS Note
- 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.
- Subject
- Work Type
- Location
- Rights Holder
- University of Oregon
- Identifier
- pna_15823.jpg
- Item Locator
- Shellenbarger Collection, Q:18 00-03596
- Source
- Gift of Michael Shellenbarger
- Provenance
- Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
- Citation
- Conde Balcom McCullough (1887-1946), Oregon Encyclopedia, http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/conde_balcom_mccullough/
- Smith, Dwight A. Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1989
- Institution
- Conversion
- This image is derived from a master TIFF (3000 x 5000 pixel, 16 bit) created by scanning a 35m slide which remains as the archival artifact. Digital editing may have included cropping, color correction, and removal of dust, scratch, or other artifacts reproduced in the scanning process.
- Submission Date
- 05/04/2015
- Modified
- 08/11/2022
- Collections
- Building Oregon (open)
APA
Building Oregon, University of Oregon. (18 Apr 2024). Siuslaw River Bridge (Florence, Oregon) Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67qh93m
MLA
Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Siuslaw River Bridge (Florence, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. 18 Apr 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67qh93m
Chicago
Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Siuslaw River Bridge (Florence, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-18. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67qh93m
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Footer Number | Term | External URI |
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1 | McCullough, Conde Balcom | http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500231060 |
2 | Mercer-Fraser Company | http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/MercerFraserCompany |
3 | Shellenbarger, Michael | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88672943 |
4 | Architecture--United States | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006693 |
5 | Architecture, American | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006700 |
6 | architecture (object genre) | http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300263552 |
7 | built works | http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265418 |
8 | bascule bridges | http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300007859 |
9 | bridges (built works) | http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300007836 |
10 | Lane County >> Oregon >> United States | https://sws.geonames.org/5735869/ |
11 | Oregon >> United States | https://sws.geonames.org/5744337/ |
12 | Florence >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States | https://sws.geonames.org/5727032/ |
13 | United States | https://sws.geonames.org/6252001/ |
14 | University of Oregon | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183 |
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