Cofferdam site for the Fort Pitt Bridge

1954

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Cofferdam site for the Fort Pitt Bridge
  • Title
  • Cofferdam site for the Fort Pitt Bridge
  • Creator
  • John R. Shrader
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B009.F31.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B009.F31.I01
  • Description
  • The initial stages of the Fort Pitt Bridge construction. Pictured (right center) is the cofferdam site, which was a temporary watertight enclosure that was pumped dry exposing the bottom of the Monongahela River so that the main concrete piers of the bridge could be constructed. Due to the increasing volume of traffic, a new highway that bisected Point State Park was required. The previous bridge (Point Bridge) near the present day Fort Pitt Bridge had to be removed and replaced with a new one about 900 feet upstream. The steel bowstring arch, double-deck Fort Pitt Bridge opened on June 19, 1959.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Fort Pitt Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Point State Park (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Cofferdams--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.)
    Bridge construction--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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