Elgin’s Kimball Street Bridge won’t be as eye-catching as San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, but it could end up having a ...
What Eads did was to offer to build a bridge that was quite revolutionary. Instead of a truss design, the conventional form for railway bridges at the time, he suggested building an arched bridge ...
Engineer John Roebling submits plans to build a bridge at St. Louis, but the St. Louis and Illinois Bridge Company ignores him. Eads' mother's first cousin, James Buchanan, is elected President.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - On July 4, 1874, the Eads Bridge was dedicated and opened. Since then, it has played a vital ...
ST. LOUIS — Volunteers gathered north of Eads Bridge Wednesday morning, wielding caulk guns and rainbow hand trowels to build a small park in Laclede’s Landing, as the historic neighborhood ...
Walt Whitman used to visit the great Eads Bridge in St. Louis to feast on the poetry of its design: “I have haunted the river every night lately, where I could look at the bridge by moonlight.” ...
The owners of the Ambassador Bridge and the community that lives next to it are waving a white flag after decades of ...
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The bridge, a four-lane, steel vertical-lift bridge built in 1969, is becoming functionally obsolete, unable to meet current ...
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She has big plans for a 168-year-old nonprofit ... James Buchanan Eads, who designed and built the 1874 Mississippi River bridge named after him, was a founder, as were fur trader Charles P.