Opened 1922 Location Scranton | Maintained by PennDOT Total length 124 m Bridge type Arch bridge Body of water Roaring Brook | |
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Carries Harrison Avenue (State Route 6011) Crosses Roaring Brook and Central Scranton Expressway Other name(s) South-East Scranton Viaduct Design Open-spandrel deck arch Similar Nay Aug Falls, North Scranton Junior Hi, Nay Aug Park, Electric City Trolley Museum, Everhart Museum | ||
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Harrison Avenue Bridge is a concrete deck arch bridge carrying Harrison Avenue (unsigned SR 6011) in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. Its three spans include an open-spandrel ribbed arch over Roaring Brook, flanked by two closed-spandrel arches. The southwestern closed-spandrel arch spans the former Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad (Laurel Line), converted to highway use in 1964 as the Central Scranton Expressway. The northeastern closed-spandrel arch spans the former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, now a heritage railroad operated by Steamtown National Historic Site.
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Map of Harrison Ave Bridge, Scranton, PA, USA
Built in 1921-1922, the bridge is notable as an example of Progressive Era civic involvement, its construction having been promoted by a citizens' group called the South to East Scranton Bridge Association. It was designed by New York City-based consulting engineer Abraham Burton Cohen, although Scranton Department of Public Works chief engineer William A. Schunk and his assistant Charles F. Schroeder were more actively involved in day-to-day supervision of construction. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.