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Harvard-Denison Bridge
From Brooklyn Centre Wiki
"One of the most imposing steel structures in Cleveland is the Harvard-Denison bridge, erected under the auspices of Cuyahoga County in 1910. The length over all is 3,233 feet, the length between end abutments being 2,781 feet. It contains twenty-two steel deck trusses, the longest span being 153 feet. The width of the bridge is fifty-six feet, consisting of a forty-foot roadway, and two eight-foot sidewalks. The height or roadway above the lowest point is 100 feet. It has two street car tracks. About 17,000 cubic yards of concrete were used. The amount of structural steel was 12,640,000 pounds, and the amount of steel reinforcement was 700,000 pounds. The concrete piles used in its construction, if placed end to end, would extend a distance of one mile. Its total cost was $527,440. The Harvard-Denison bridge is the largest structure of its kind in the extreme south end of the city, and connects populous business districts in Newburg and Brooklyn. "
--"Bridges of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County", 1918, page 29
The construction of the Harvard-Denison Bridge approach on the west side of the Cuyahoga River lopped off the corner of several sublots in the Petty-Baldwin Allotment which previously had extended north to the old Denison Avenue.