Mitchell Street Bridge – San Antonio TX

City:
San Antonio, TX

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Started:
1935

Completed:
1937

Designers:
Frank T. Drought, I. Ewig

Contractor:
Works Progress Administration

Quality of Information:
Minimal

Marked:
Yes

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Works Progress Administration built the Mitchell Street Bridge over the San Antonio River between 1935 and 1937. The steel stringer style two-lane bridge is still in use for vehicular traffic.

Source notes

Plaque on bridge

Site originally submitted by Larry Moore on March 21, 2016.

Location Info

Mitchell Street
San Antonio, TX Bexar County

Coordinates: 29.39313, -98.49467

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