Andy Warhol Bridge
Andy Warhol Bridge | |
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Coordinates | 40°26′46″N 80°00′05″W / 40.44611°N 80.00139°WCoordinates: 40°26′46″N 80°00′05″W / 40.44611°N 80.00139°W |
Carries | Seventh Street |
Crosses | Allegheny River |
Official name | Andy Warhol Bridge |
Named for | Andy Warhol |
Maintained by | Allegheny County |
Characteristics | |
Design | Suspension bridge |
Total length | 1,061 ft (323 m) |
Width | 62 ft (19 m)Vertical clearance above 78 ft towers |
Height | 83.5 ft (25.5 m) |
History | |
Constructed by | American Bridge Company |
Construction start | 1925 |
Construction end | 1926 |
Opened | June 17, 1926 |
Location | |
Andy Warhol Bridge, also known as the Seventh Street Bridge, spans the Allegheny River in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is the only bridge in the United States named for a visual artist. It was opened at a cost of $1.5 million[1] on June 17, 1926, in a ceremony attended by 2,000.[2]
Named for the artist Andy Warhol, a Pittsburgh native, it is one of three parallel bridges called The Three Sisters, the others being the Roberto Clemente Bridge and the Rachel Carson Bridge. The Three Sisters are self-anchored suspension bridges and are historically significant because they are the only trio of nearly identical bridges – as well as the first self-anchored suspension spans — built in the United States.
The bridge was renamed for Warhol on March 18, 2005, as part of the tenth-anniversary celebration for the Andy Warhol Museum. Like the 8th Street bridge, few know about the name change and most still call it the 8th street bridge.[citation needed] The museum is nearby at 117 Sandusky Street, a street which leads to the bridge from the north side of the river on Pittsburgh's North Shore.
On August 11, 2013, the Andy Warhol Bridge was covered with 580 knitted and crocheted panels in a yarn bombing project known as Knit the Bridge that lasted for four weeks.[3]
This is the third bridge on the site, the first having been demolished in early 1884. Construction of its replacement began in 1884,[4] opening to traffic in 1887.[5]
Gallery[]
Andy Warhol Bridge
Banner for the bridge's namesake, Andy Warhol
"Knit the Bridge" yarn bombing event on the bridge in August 2013
See also[]
- List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania
- List of crossings of the Allegheny River
References[]
- ^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LUMqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GkoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6868%2C6791474[bare URL]
- ^ The Pittsburgh Press - Google News Archive Search
- ^ Hamilton, Anita (August 13, 2013). "Pittsburgh Bridge Gets a 'Yarn Bomb' Makeover". Time.
- ^ "A novel and profitable plan of construction for the new seventh street bridge". Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette. 23 Nov 1883. p. 2. Retrieved 5 October 2018 – via newspapers.com.
(make the piers) longer than they are now which is sixty-six feet
- ^ "Local Laconics". Altoona Times. 22 January 1887. p. 4. Retrieved 5 October 2018 – via newspapers.com.
Levi H. Kantner, the 16-year-old son of Mr. D. T. Kantner, of the Altoona Gas Works, had the pleasure of being the first bicycler to cross the new Seventh street bridge on a wheel. Levi Kantner won't be beat in anything he undertakes that is, he won't if he can help it.
- Pohla Smith (2005). Warhol Bridge Dedication: story by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved April 23, 2006.
External links[]
Media related to Andy Warhol Bridge at Wikimedia Commons
- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. PA-490-B, "Three Sisters Bridges, Seventh Street Bridge, Spanning Allegheny River at Seventh Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA", 3 photos, 1 color transparency, 1 photo caption page
- Seventh Street Bridge at Structurae
- Seventh Street Bridge at pghbridges.com
- Andy Warhol (Seventh Street) at
- Bridges in Pittsburgh
- Bridges completed in 1926
- Self-anchored suspension bridges
- Bridges over the Allegheny River
- Andy Warhol
- Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks
- Suspension bridges in Pennsylvania
- Road bridges in Pennsylvania
- Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania
- 1926 establishments in Pennsylvania
- National Register of Historic Places in Pittsburgh
- Steel bridges in the United States