State Street Bridge (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
The State Street Bridge, also known as the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Bridge, is a concrete deck-arch bridge in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It carries State Street (PA Route 3014) over PA Route 230, Paxton Creek, and Amtrak/Norfolk Southern railroad tracks. The bridge is 1,312 feet long and 80 feet wide.
Completed on August 22, 1930, it was built to be the main eastern entrance into downtown Harrisburg and the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex. The bridge serves as a memorial to the armed forces of the United States and Pennsylvania that fought in wars up to World War I.
Notable features include two 145-foot pylons at the western end topped with large eagle sculptures by Lee Lawrie. Each eagle stands about 21 feet tall. The pylons’ faces include the years of major wars, and the arch keystones feature World War I weapon carvings.
The bridge underwent renovations in the 1950s (a new steel span in 1955 and a deck and sidewalk replacement in 1957). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. PennDOT maintains the bridge, and it was documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in 1997. Plans for a museum under the bridge were never built.
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