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Bridges of Metropolitan Cleveland: Past and Present Cleveland State University EngagedScholarship@CSU Cleveland Memory Books 2016 Bridges of Metropolitan Cleveland: Past and Present Sarah Ruth Watson John R. Wolfs Follow this and additional works at: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/clevmembks Part of the United States History Commons How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! Recommended Citation Watson, Sarah Ruth and Wolfs, John R., "Bridges of Metropolitan Cleveland: Past and Present" (2016). Cleveland Memory. 30. https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/clevmembks/30 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Books at EngagedScholarship@CSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Cleveland Memory by an authorized administrator of EngagedScholarship@CSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. BRIDGES OF METROPOLITAN CLEVELAND PAST AND PRESENT LIST OF SPONSORS The authors are deeply grateful to the following people who have generously supported the funding of this book: CSU Womens Association Trygve Hoff Cleveland Section, ASCE Frank J. Gallo, P.E. C. D. Williams Carlson, Englehorn & Associates, Inc. Howard, Needsles, Tammen & Bergendoff Fred L. Plummer M/M G. Brooks Earnest Great Lakes Construction RCM Engineering Thomas J. Neff The Horvitz Company Edward J. Kassouf Havens and Emerson, Inc. National Engineering and Contracting Company Dalton-Dalton-Newport, Inc. Maxine G. Levin The foregoing Sponsors responded generally to the solicitation efforts of a special committee established by the Board of Directors of the Cleveland Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Copyright © 1981 Sara Ruth Watson and John R. Wolfs. Printed in the U.S.A. Dedicated to Wilbur Jay Watson, C.E., D. Eng. FOREWORD The two co-authors of this book must have spent endless hours in exhaustive research in the preparation of this manuscript. Here included is a compilation of a wealth of information, both technical and general as well as anecdotal, on the most important bridges in Cuyahoga County. This book should hold interest of all civil engineers in Ohio as well as lay persons who have a particular bent for history. Over half a century has passed since the publication of the only other book on bridges in the county. Consequently this book not only updates the former book, but also presents much greater detail concerning all important Cuyahoga County bridges. This book has been written by two native Clevelanders, one eastsider and one westsider, who are enthusiasts of engineering-history and are proud of their city. John R. Wolfs, a graduate of both Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University, was formerly City Engineer of Cleveland and Chief Engineer of the Cleveland Cuyahoga County Port Authority. Sara Ruth Wilson is a writer, teacher and lecturer. A graduate of Western Reserve University where she took a Ph.D in English Literature. Dr. Watson, now retired, taught for thirty years at Fenn College and Cleveland State University. Not only did she teach courses in English, she also taught a course in the History of Civil Engineering. This pioneer course initiated in 1940, was almost unique; only Purdue University offered a similar course. The American Society of Civil Engineers awarded her the Society’s prestigious History and Heritage Award for her life-time interest in Civil Engineering History. It is only proper that the book should be dedicated to Dr. Wilbur J. Watson, designer of a number of the county’s most important bridges and father of co-author Dr. Sara Ruth Watson. A glance at Appendix B, "Bibliography" , will show that Dr. Wilbur J. Watson, (1871-1939), through books and articles, has kept alive for posterity the record of his accomplishments. History buffs will undoubtedly find considerable interest in the anecdotes concerning the manner in which the bridges across the Cuyahoga River accelerated the growth and development of the City of Cleveland during the early and mid 1800’s. The treatment later given the four great bridges across the Cuyahoga River is fully detailed and of particular interest. vi The co-authors have successfully stressed the fact that the Cuyahoga River is fully replete with all the principal types of bridge structures. Many residents of the county are not cognizant of the fact that many tourists to Cleveland take the boat ride up the Cuyahoga River principally to see the bridges in the county. The co-authors have also rightly given credit to the eminent civil engineers who were responsible throughout all history in the design of the county’s bridges. Inasmuch as both co-authors have been long-time friends of mine I deem it a genuine privilege to prepare this Foreword, Dr. Sara Ruth Watson was my associate at Fenn College for many years and John Wolfs, was a former student of mine at Case Institute of Technology, and currently we serve together on the National Committee on the History and Heritage of American Civil Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Cleveland, Ohio G. Brooks Earnest 1980 PREFACE The authors hope that this, the only in-depth study of the bridges in the area, will fill a gap in the history of Cleveland and will serve as a base for future studies. The only other book written on the subject (now out of print) entitled Bridges of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, was prepared to commemorate the opening of the Detroit-Superior Viaduct in 1918. The fact that the authors of the present work view it as a collection of all sorts of information concerning the significant bridges and bridge-engineering in the Cleveland area accounts for some stylistic inconsistencies. Descriptions are sometimes technical and detailed, sometimes sociological and historical, and sometimes humorous, chatty, even legendary. In short, there is something for everyone-for the engineer, for the local historian, for the sociologist, and, last but not least, we hope, for the general reader who has a bit of curiosity. This has been a labor of love, not only for the authors but for those who assist them. It had had special meaning for the co-authors Sara Ruth Watson, and for her helper sister, Emily, because for them it is a tribute to their father, the late Wilbur J. Watson, eminent bridge-engineer, to whom this volume is dedicated. We thank Dr. Clarence H.C. James, former chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics of the Cleveland State University, who, with two of his student assistants, John Sullivan and Thomas Palko, did an Inventory of Noteworthy Engineering and Industrial Works in Cuyahoga County, Ohio for the Historic American Engineering Record of the National Park Service. We also thank Mr. Ralph Robison, Principal Engineer for Howard, Needles, Tammen and Bergendoff, who helped compile the report of the Inner Belt Freeway Viaduct, and the late Ralph E. Scott, of the Osborn Engineering Company, who graciously aided the authors in obtaining information about various structures designed by this, the oldest extant engineering firm in Cleveland. We are especially grateful to Professor Frank J. Gallo of Cleveland State University; he has devoted much of his valuable time, energy and thought to seeing that this project saw the light of day. And we thank the CSU Womens Association for its generous gift which furnished the financial impetus which led to the fulfillment of this project. Last but not least, we thank Emily Watson and Mrs. John (Marjorie) Wolfs for their clerical assistance and helpful criticisms. Cleveland, Ohio Sara Ruth Watson 1981 John R. Wolfs viii CONTENTS Foreword………………………………………………………………….…v Preface………………………………………………………………….......vii List of Illustrations………………………………..…………………………x Chapter 1 Introduction: The Early Bridges……………………………………………..1 Chapter 2 The Four Great Viaducts……………….…………………………………...9 Chapter 3 Movable Bridges…………………………………………………………...41 Chapter 4 The Railroad Era in Cleveland Bridge History…………..………………...56 Chapter 5 Ornamental and Park Bridges………….…………………………………..70 Chapter 6 Unusual Bridges in and about Cleveland…………………………………..85 Chapter 7 The Present Day Problem…………………………………………………..91 Appendix A Notes………………………………………………………………………..96 Appendix B Bibliography………………………………………………………………100 Appendix C Chronological List of Notable Bridges in Greater Cleveland………………………………………………….104 Structures across the Cuyahoga River…………………………………….107 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Figure I, Original Lake Shore & Michigan Railroad and Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad Bridge………………………………………………………………xii Figure II, Main Avenue Bridge, ca. 1939………………………………………………..xii Figure III, Old Columbus Road Bridge…………………………………………...………5 Figure IV, The Old Detroit Viaduct……………………………………………………...17 Figure V, Detroit-Superior Bridge under Construction………………………………….20 Figure VI, Detroit-Superior Bridge, ca. 1918……………………………………………22 Figure VII, Decorative Pylons of the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge…………………………..26 Figure VIII, Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, ca. 1932………………………………………….28 Figure IX, Main Avenue Bridge with old Main Avenue Bridge………………………...30 Figure X, Central Viaduct, Showing Fixed Span………………………………………..33 Figure XI, The Inner Belt Bridge………………………………………………………...39 Figure XII, Map Showing Location of Significant Bridges……………………………..40 Figure XIII, Eagle Street Vertical Lift Bridge…………………………………………...42 Figure XIV, Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge…………………………………………….…44 Figure XV, Twin Bridge of the Baltimore and Ohio and the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroads……………………………………………….45 Figure XVI, Detroit-Superior Bridge Showing the Open Center Street Bridge................46 Figure
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