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Society: ASCE Main Category: Civil Sub Category: Buildings Era: 1930-1939 DateCreated: 1939 Ship Channel Houston State: TX Zip: 77571 Country: USA Website: http://www.asce.org/Project/San-Jacinto-Monument/ Creator: Finn, Alfred, Cummins, Robert

The San Jacinto Monument commemorates the decisive 1836 battle near the banks of the Buffalo Bayou and the San Jacinto River that allowed Texas to win independence from Mexico. It is the world's tallest monument, rising 15 feet higher than the Washington Monument.

In 1936, Daughters and Sons of the Republic of Texas led lobbying efforts to allocate funds for a monument that would mark the importance of the Battle of San Jacinto. Ground was broken on April 21, 1936 - 100 years to the day after the victorious battle.

YearAdded:

1992

Image Credit: Courtesy Flickr/Diveofficer (CC BY 2.0) Image Caption: San Jacinto Monument Era_date_from: 1939

San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge

Society: ASCE Main Category: Civil Sub Category: Bridges Era: 1930-1939 DateCreated: 1937 1-99 San Francisco – Bay Bridge Oakland State: CA Zip: 94607 Country: USA Website: http://www.asce.org/People-and-Projects/Projects/Landmarks/San-Francisco---Oakland-Bay-Bridge/ Creator: Purcell, Charles , American Bridge Company

Ever since the Gold Rush days of the 1850s, San Francisco Bay area residents and businesses had lobbied for a bridge joining San Francisco and Oakland. Early studies indicated that the bridge was impractical and infeasible; but in October 1929, President Herbert Hoover (himself an engineer) and California Governor C. C. Young appointed the Hoover-Young San Francisco Bay Bridge Commission to study the question more closely.

YearAdded:

1986

Image Credit: Courtesy Flickr/David Baron (CC BY-SA 2.0) Image Caption: San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge Era_date_from: 1937

Salginatobel Bridge

Society: ASCE Main Category: Civil Sub Category: Bridges Era: 1930-1939 DateCreated: 1930 Salgina Valley ravine Schiers State: Graubünden Zip: Country: Switzerland Website: http://www.asce.org/Project/Salginatobel-Bridge/ Creator: Maillart, Robert

The Salginatobel Bridge, spanning the Salgina Valley ravine, is the earliest surviving three-hinged, hollow box arch bridge designed by Robert Maillart.

YearAdded:

1990

Image Credit: Courtesy Wikipedia/Rama (CC BY-SA 2.0) Image Caption: Salginatobel Bridge Era_date_from: 1930

Blue Ridge Parkway

Society: ASCE Main Category: Civil Sub Category: Roads & Rails Era: 1930-1939 DateCreated: 1935-1937 Blue Ridge Mountains State: VA Zip: Country: USA Website: http://www.asce.org/Project/Blue-Ridge-Parkway/ Creator:

Designed to connect the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and the Great Smokey Mountains National Park in North Carolina, the Blue Ridge Parkway was planned to provide pleasant motoring and to conserve and interpret the unique natural and cultural resources of the Southern Highlands. It was conceived also as a public works project to relieve unemployment in the Appalachian region during the Great Depression.

YearAdded:

1999

Image Credit: Courtesy Flickr/thewebprincess (CC BY-ND 2.0) Image Caption: A stunning view from an outlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway, which is famous for its beauty Era_date_from: 1935

Rockville Stone Arch Bridge

Society: ASCE Main Category: Civil Sub Category: Bridges Era: 1900-1909 DateCreated: 1902 Susquehanna River Marysville State: PA Zip: 17053 Country: USA Website: http://www.asce.org/Project/Rockville-Stone-Arch-Bridge/ Creator:

The third bridge built on the same site to carry railroad tracks across the Susquehanna River just north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the Rockville Stone Arch Bridge, at 3,820 feet long and 52 feet wide, is believed to be the longest and widest stone-arch railroad bridge in the world. A central link in rail travel between New York City and Pittsburgh, the Rockville Stone Arch Bridge accommodates four lines of railroad tracks, today serving both the Norfolk Southern and Amtrak lines.

YearAdded:

1979

Image Credit: Courtesy Flickr/John Mueller (CC BY 2.0) Image Caption: Rockville Stone Arch Bridge Era_date_from: 1902

Alvord Lake Bridge

Society: ASCE Main Category: Civil Sub Category: Bridges Era: 1880-1889 DateCreated: 1889 San Francisco State: CA Zip: Country: USA Website: http://www.asce.org/project/alvord-lake-bridge/ Creator: Ransome, Ernest

Alvord Lake Bridge, along with many of Ernest Ransome's reinforced concrete buildings, survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and several subsequent tremblers with no damage. Built in 1889 by Ernest L Ransome of New York, this reinforced concrete arch bridge in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is believed to be the oldest concrete bridge in the United States that used steel reinforcing bars to improve the behavior of the concrete. The reinforcement consists of a series of square cold-twisted steel reinforcing bars, an invention of Ransome.

YearAdded:

1969

Image Credit: Public Domain (National Park Service) Image Caption: Alvord Lake Bridge Era_date_from: 1889

Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility

Society: ASCE Main Category: Civil Sub Category: Buildings Era: 1940-1949 DateCreated: 1943 Icarus Way Aie State: HI Zip: 96701 Country: USA Website: http://www.asce.org/Project/Red-Hill-Underground-Fuel-Storage-Facility/ Creator: U.S. Navy, Goodrich Tire Company

Conceived in the early years of World War II as a plan to bury four fuel containers horizontally in a hillside at the U.S. Navy facility at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility ultimately encompassed the design and construction of 20 vertical storage tanks - each large enough to contain a 20-story building - buried in the volcanic hillside and connected by tunnels to a harbor-side pumping station more than two-and-a-half miles away.

YearAdded:

1994

Image Credit: Courtesy Wikicommons/Leslie Nelson (CC BY-SA 4.0) Image Caption: Above-ground fuel storage tanks at Pearl Harbor prior to the construction of Red Hill. Era_date_from: 1943

Queensboro Bridge

Society: ASCE Main Category: Civil Sub Category: Bridges Era: 1900-1909 DateCreated: 1909 Queensboro Bridge Path Long Island City State: NY Zip: 11101 Country: USA Website: http://www.asce.org/Project/Queensboro-Bridge/ Creator: Lindenthal, Gustav , Hornbostel, Henry

When opened in 1909, the Queensboro Bridge had the two longest steel cantilever spans in the world - 1,182 feet from Manhattan to Blackwell's Island and 984 feet from Blackwell's Island to Queens. These would remain the world's longest cantilever spans until the completion of the Quebec Bridge in 1917. The Queensboro Bridge has an overall length of 3,724.5 feet. It originally carried two elevated railway lines, two trolley lines, six carriage lanes and two pedestrian walkways.

YearAdded:

2009

Image Credit: Courtesy Flickr/reivax (CC BY-SA 2.0) Image Caption: Queensboro Bridge Era_date_from: 1909

Quebec Bridge

Society: ASCE Main Category: Civil Sub Category: Bridges Era: 1910-1919 DateCreated: 1917 Quebec Bridge Quebec City State: Quebec Zip: G1K 4J9 Country: Canada Website: http://www.asce.org/Project/Quebec-Bridge/ Creator: McLure, Norman , Cooper, Theodore

The bridge is immense, not only in length and weight but in width. At 67 feet wide, it can accommodate two sets of railway tracks, two sets of streetcar tracks and two roadways.

It took three tries and cost 89 lives, but the city of Quebec was determined to compete with provincial rival Montreal for commercial rail traffic in the late 19th century. The solution was a rail bridge across the St. Lawrence River requiring a single cantilever span 1,800 feet long - the longest ever attempted.

YearAdded:

1987

Image Credit: Courtesy Wikipedia/Sebastien Savard (CC BY-SA 2.5) Image Caption: Quebec Bridge Era_date_from: 1917

Poughkeepsie-Highland Bridge

Society: ASCE Main Category: Civil Sub Category: Bridges Era: 1880-1889 DateCreated: 1888 Hudson River Poughkeepsie State: NY Zip: 12528 Country: USA Website: http://www.asce.org/People-and-Projects/Projects/Landmarks/Poughkeepsie-Highland-Bridge/, http://www.asce.org/Project/Poughkeepsie-Highland-Bridge/ Creator: Clarke, Thomas , Macdonald, Charles

A bridge across the Hudson at or near Poughkeepsie was planned starting in the early 1870s to primarily carry coal from the coalfields of northeastern Pennsylvania to New England. At the time there were no bridges between Albany and New York Harbor. Horatio Allen, soon to be President of the ASCE, was its first Chief Engineer. He designed a multiple span suspension bridge. Later the American Bridge Company started construction on a five span bridge but went bankrupt before it completed the first pier foundations.

YearAdded:

2009

Image Credit: Courtesy Flickr/bobistraveling (CC BY 2.0) Image Caption: Poughkeepsie-Highland Bridge Era_date_from: 1888

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