Washington Street Bridge (Wilmington, Delaware)

USA / Delaware / Wilmington / Wilmington, Delaware
 NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, bridge, 1922_construction
Concrete arch bridge over Brandywine Creek
Built 1922; rehabilitated 2000.
Length of largest span: 250.0 ft.
Total length: 720.2 ft.
Deck width: 40.0 ft.

The Washington Street Bridge is significant technologically, as the only open-spandrel concrete arch bridge surveyed in Delaware, and architecturally, for the high artistic value of its monumental design. It derives additional significance from its association with the movement to memorialize the soldiers killed in the first World War.

Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
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Coordinates:   39°45'8"N   75°32'53"W
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