The Walnut Lane Bridge is a concrete arch bridge located in Northwest Philadelphia that connects the Germantown and Roxborough neighborhoods across the Wissahickon Creek in Fairmount Park. While drivers may cross the bridge too quickly to notice, the view from underneath the bridge has inspired many artists and writers, such as Christopher Morley. The design was copied from Pont Adolphe in Luxembourg.
Construction began on July 5, 1906 and was completed on October 14, 1908. Over 40,000 tons of rubble concrete were poured into the falsework, which had been built from steel bents 20 feet high and 370,000 board feet of timber, weighing about 900 tons. The bridge's six spans total 585 ft in length . Very little use was made of reinforcing steel, which was scarce at the time. The roadway is 40 ft wide, flanked by 10-foot reinforced-concrete sidewalks and pre-cast concrete balustrades.
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