9. DETAIL OF RAIL TRANSPORTATION RELIEF - Calvert Street Bridge, Spanning Rock Creek & Potomac Parkway, Washington, District of Columbia

ID: 2609 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA ~ Date: Documentation compiled after 1968
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9. DETAIL OF RAIL TRANSPORTATION RELIEF - Calvert Street Bridge, Spanning Rock Creek & Potomac Parkway, Washington, District of Columbia
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This bridge represents the response of a prominent team of designers to the demand of the Commission of Fine Art that the new structures harmonize with both the landscape and the nearby Connecticut Avenue span (HAER No. DC-6). Its triple-arch design concrete faced with stone fit the pattern of masonry arches in the Rock Creek Valley.

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Built in 1935, this bridge replaced the 1891 iron trestle bridge that had been constructed in the same location. The Commission of Fine Arts considered bridge designs for this site for years before finally settling on Paul Philippe Cret’s…