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Designer: Texas Highway Department

Adams Avenue Overpass – Temple TX

The Adams Avenue Overpass is a 285 foot long steel stringer bridge that takes West Adams Avenue over multiple tracks of the former Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway (now BNSF Railway) in Temple, Texas. The bridge, which replaced an… read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

Airline Drive Overpass – Houston TX

The Texas Highway Department and the Federal Works Agency Public Roads Administration built an overpass in 1941 to separate the grade of Airline Drive and the Houston Belt and Terminal Railway tracks. The overpass is currently open to traffic.

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Federal Works Agency (FWA)

Bosque River Bridge – Meridian TX

The Bosque River Bridge was constructed under a Works Progress Administration work-relief contract between 1940 and 1941. The bridge was as part of a larger project that created a new alignment of Texas State Highway 22 though Bosque County. The… read more

Project type: Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Brady Creek Bridge – Brady TX

The Brady Creek Bridge is a 270 foot long, 50 foot wide steel stringer bridge that carries US Highway 377 (also called N Bridge St) across Brady Creek in Brady, Texas. Jensen Construction Co. Inc. built the bridge in 1939… read more

Project type: Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Federal Works Agency (FWA)

Burr’s Ferry Bridge – Leesville LA

The Burr’s Ferry Bridge is built over the Sabine River where Texas State Highway 63 and Louisiana State Highway 8 meet. The bridge consists of three Parker though truss spans and 34 concrete girder spans. At the time the bridge… read more

Project type: Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

Business U.S. Highway 79 Underpass – Taylor TX

The Texas Highway Department and the United States Bureau of Public Roads built an underpass in 1939 to separate the grade of U.S. Route 79 and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad (currently Business U.S. Highway 79 and Union Pacific… read more

Project type: Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

Deweyville Swing Bridge – Deweyville TX

The Deweyville Swing Bridge is built over the Sabine River where Texas State Highway 12 and Louisiana Highway 12 meet. The bridge is a deck plate girder swing design. The 160 foot main span pivots on top of a central… read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

Grassy Creek Bridge – Navasota TX

The Grassy Creek Bridge is a stringer type bridge that carried Texas State Highway 105 over Grassy Creek in Grimes County, Texas southeast of Navasota. The bridge was designed and financed by the Texas Highway Department and the United States… read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

Guadalupe River Bridge – Cuero TX

The Guadalupe River bridge was built to replace a truss bridge built by DeWitt county in 1887 because the bridge suffered a “light load capacity and inadequate roadway width.” Planning for the new bridge began with two preliminary site inspections… read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

International & Great Northern Railroad Underpass – San Antonio TX

The Texas Highway Department and the United States Bureau of Public Roads built the International & Great Northern Railroad (now Union Pacific) Underpass in 1937 to separate the grade between the railroad tracks and San Pedro Avenue in San Antonio,… read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

Kessler Avenue (Highway 77) Underpass – Schulenburg TX

The Texas Highway Department and the United States Bureau of Public Roads built an underpass in 1935 to separate the grade between the Texas & New Orleans Railroad tracks and U. S. Highway 77 in Schulenburg, Texas.

Project type: Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

Newcastle Roadside Park – Newcastle TX

Roadside picnic areas were created by the National Youth Administration in cooperation with the Texas Highway Department. Lyndon Baines Johnson was the first director of the Texas branch of NYA from 1935-37. Tables and benches were built of local materials,… read more

Project type: Parks and Recreation, Picnic and Other Facilities
Agency: National Youth Administration (NYA)

Nogalitos Street Underpass – San Antonio TX

The Texas Highway Department and the United States Bureau of Public Roads designed and financed several underpasses on Nogalitos Street in San Antonio, Texas. Built in 1937 by Brown & Root, the project took Nogalitos Street under Cassiano Street, The… read more

Project type: Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

Oakland-Merlin Overpass – Dallas TX

The Oakland-Merlin Overpass is a 1,759 foot long overpass that currently carries Malcom X Blvd (formerly Oakland Ave.) over the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Railyard near downtown Dallas, Texas. The Texas Highway Department and the United States Bureau of Public… read more

Project type: Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR), Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Roadside Park – Gonzales TX

The National Youth Administration (NYA) in cooperation with the Texas Highway Department created roadside picnic areas in Texas. The Gonzales park, constructed adjacent to U. S. Highway 183 near the south bank of the Guadalupe River was part of the… read more

Project type: Picnic and Other Facilities, Parks and Recreation
Agency: National Youth Administration (NYA)

Roadside Park – La Grange TX

The National Youth Administration (NYA) in cooperation with the Texas Highway Department created roadside picnic areas in Texas. The La Grange park, constructed adjacent to U. S. Highway 77 was part of the development of roadside parks begun in 1935… read more

Project type: Parks and Recreation, Picnic and Other Facilities
Agency: National Youth Administration (NYA)

Roy B. Inks Bridge – Llano TX

A disastrous flood in June 1935 washed away the existing highway bridge across the Llano River in Llano, Texas. The Texas Highway Department designed a new bridge in the fall of 1935 and built a new two-lane four-span Parker through… read more

Project type: Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency:

Salt Fork Red River Bridge – Wellington TX

Record flooding of the Salt Fork Red River occurred on June 15, 1938, damaging the bridge for then State Highway 52 (now State Highway 203). Deemed unsalvageable by Texas Highway Department Engineers, plans were made for a replacement bridge. The… read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Federal Works Agency (FWA)

San Gabriel River Bridges – Georgetown TX

The bridges over the north and south forks of the San Gabriel River in Georgetown, Texas are identical designs of a cantilevered-suspended span type bridge, where a steel unit is placed between cantilevered arms projecting beyond the main supports of… read more

Project type: Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

South Llano River Bridge – Junction TX

The South Llano River Bridge is a 1424 foot steel through truss bridge with a 24-foot wide roadway that carries Texas State Highway Loop 481 over the South Llano River in Junction, Texas. The bridge replaced a functionally obsolete truss… read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

South Main Street Overpass – Fort Worth TX

The South Main Street Overpass is a bridge with an overall length of 1,335 feet including approaches that currently carries South Main Street over multiple BNSF Railway tracks near downtown Fort Worth, Texas. The Texas Highway Department oversaw the construction… read more

Project type: Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

South St. Mary’s Street Underpasses – San Antonio TX

In 1937, the Texas Highway Department and the United States Bureau of Public Roads built two underpasses on South St. Mary’s Street in San Antonio, Texas to separate the grade of South St. Mary’s Street from the railway lines of… read more

Project type: Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

Sulphur Creek Bridge – Lampasas TX

The Sulphur Creek Bridge is a three span steel stringer bridge that carries U.S. Highway 281 over Sulphur Creek in Lampasas, Texas. W. W. Vann & C0. built the bridge in 1934 under the direction of the Texas Highway Department… read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

Trinity River Bridge – Riverside TX

The State Highway 19 Bridge at the Trinity River on the Walker/Trinity county line, consists of two 250-foot Parker through truss spans, one 150-foot Parker through truss span, and 51 steel I-beam approach spans with a special metal picket-type rail…. read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Federal Works Agency (FWA)

Union Pacific Railroad Underpass – Houston TX

In 1936, the Texas Highway Department and the United States Bureau of Public Roads built an underpass to separate the grade of Wayside Drive and the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad (now Union Pacific).

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

US 190 Bridge at the Colorado River – Lometa TX

The US 190 Bridge at the Colorado River conveys U.S. Highway 190 over the Colorado River at the Lampasas and San Saba county line west of Lometa, linking the cities of Lampasas and San Saba, the county seats. The Texas… read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Federal Works Agency (FWA)

US 281 Bridge at the Brazos River – Santo TX

The US 281 Bridge at the Brazos River is a through truss bridge consisting of one three-span continuous unit 656 1/2 feet long and 12 steel I-beam approach spans, each 40 feet long, for an overall length of 1,138 feet.The… read more

Project type: Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

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