- City:
- San Antonio, TX
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, National Youth Administration (NYA)
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
Description
This lenticular truss bridge was moved to historic Brackenridge Park in 1925. It had been constructed in 1890 on St. Mary’s Street over the San Antonio River by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company of East Berlin Connecticut. After a devastating flood in 1921 the city under took a massive rebuilding of the city’s downtown infrastructure and the bridge was relocated to the park rather than being demolished. The plaque on the bridge indicates that the National Youth Administration did work in 1937-38, but it is not known if they worked on the bridge or on the adjacent retaining walls.
Source notes
Bridge plaque. The National Register of Historic Places registration form for Brackenridge Park, dated June 1, 2011, provides details about the bridge in two places.Site originally submitted by Elizabeth Hilburn on September 17, 2013.
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The proposed demolition of areas in Brackenridge Park will alter the footprint of the park that has remained mostly unchanged since the 1950’s. A plan to demolition a roadway behind the old pumphouse, redesign of the park is with public opposition.