Cowen Park Bridge

	Cowen Park Bridge
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Seattle Landmark
Location	Seattle, Washington
Built	1936
Architect	Clark H. Eldridge and A.J. Maloney
Architectural style	Art Deco
MPS	Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
NRHP reference No.	82004233
Added to NRHP	July 26, 1982

Cowen Park Bridge
Cowen Park Bridge
Coordinates	47°40′24″N 122°18′43″W / 47.67332°N 122.31194°WCoordinates: 47°40′24″N 122°18′43″W / 47.67332°N 122.31194°W
Heritage status	National Register of Historic Places, Seattle city landmark
Characteristics
Design	Deck Arch
Material	Concrete
Total length	358 ft (109 m)
History
Engineering design by	Clark Eldridge
Opened	1936
Location

The Cowen Park Bridge is a reinforced concrete arch bridge in Seattle, Washington. The bridge has a length of 358 feet (109 m) and carries 15th Avenue NE across a ravine in the Cowen Park. The bridges acts as a dividing line in the Ravenna-Cowen Park contiguous area, with the smaller area west of the bridge deemed Cowen Park and the larger area east of the bridge considered Ravenna Park. The bridge, which spans from NE 62nd Street to Cowen Place NE, connects the northern Roosevelt/Ravenna neighborhood with the beginning of the University District. The Cowen Park Bridge is one of two bridges that span the Ravenna Park ravine (the other being the 20th Avenue NE Bridge built in 1913) but is the only one open to vehicular traffic.

The bridge was built in 1936 under the authority of the Works Progress Administration. The bridge engineer was Clark Eldridge.^[1] The structure is listed in the National Register of Historic Places,^[2] and it is a designated city landmark.^[3] The bridge has been praised for the 12 ft (3.7 m) Art Deco light standards along its sides.^[4]

A street-level view of 15th Avenue NE as it continues along the Cowen Park Bridge.
A close-up of one of the Art Deco light standards on the Cowen Park Bridge.

References[]

^ Long, Priscilla (March 24, 2001). "WPA builds Cowen Park Bridge in Seattle's Ravenna neighborhood in 1936". HistoryLink.org Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History. Archived from the original on March 14, 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-25.
^ National Register of Historic Places; Annual Listing of Historic Properties (Part II) (PDF). National Park Service. March 1, 1983. p. 8669.
^ "Individual Landmarks". City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
^ Kreisman, Lawrence (1999). Made To Last: Historic Preservation in Seattle and King County. Historic Seattle Preservation Foundation in association with the University of Washington Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-295-97846-8.

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[1] Long, Priscilla (March 24, 2001). "WPA builds Cowen Park Bridge in Seattle's Ravenna neighborhood in 1936". HistoryLink.org Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History. Archived from the original on March 14, 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-25.

[2] National Register of Historic Places; Annual Listing of Historic Properties (Part II) (PDF). National Park Service. March 1, 1983. p. 8669.

[3] "Individual Landmarks". City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. Retrieved March 25, 2011.

[4] Kreisman, Lawrence (1999). Made To Last: Historic Preservation in Seattle and King County. Historic Seattle Preservation Foundation in association with the University of Washington Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-295-97846-8.

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