National Historic Landmark · steel bridge · St. Louis (Independent City), Missouri

Eads Bridge

Bridge between Illinois and Missouri, U.S. in St. Louis (Independent City), Missouri. Added to the National Register in 1966, and a National Historic Landmark.

National Historic LandmarkListed 1966
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What it is

Wikipedia · Eads Bridge

The Eads Bridge is a combined road and rail bridge over the Mississippi River connecting the cities of St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois. It is located on the St. Louis riverfront between Laclede's Landing to the north, and the grounds of the Gateway Arch to the south. The bridge is named for its designer and builder, James Buchanan Eads. Work on the bridge began in 1867, and it was completed in 1874. The Eads Bridge was the first bridge across the Mississippi south of the Missouri River. Earlier bridges were located north of the Missouri, where the Mississippi is narrower. None of the earlier bridges survived, which means that the Eads Bridge is also the oldest bridge on the river.

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The record

National Register of Historic Places
Property typeStructure
AddressSpanning the Mississippi River at Washington St., St. Louis (Independent City), MO
CountySt. Louis County
ListedOct 15, 1966
Reference number66000946
Type of placesteel bridge, railway bridge, road bridge
DesignationsNational Historic Landmark, Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
Contributing resources1 structures

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AddressSpanning the Mississippi River at Washington St., St. Louis (Independent City), MO
Coordinates38.62827, -90.17149 · Directions ↗
Nearest national park unitGateway Arch National Park · 1 mi · on Park Atlas
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Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 66000946. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.