Seventh Street Improvement Arches
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The bridge is one of the few of its style in the United States, and is the only one of its type known in Minnesota. The abutments and wing walls were built with gray limestone quarried in St. Paul, while the main structure was built with a buff-colored Kasota limestone quarried from the Minnesota River Valley.
Date: June, 2013
Photo by: Kimmy Tanaka
This file appears in: Seventh Street Improvement Arches
Seventh Street Improvement Arches
It is Bridge 90386 according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation, but architectural historians almost speak in reverent tones when they talk about the Seventh Street Improvement Arches. They…