Cowen Park Bridge

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Cowen Park Bridge

Engineering design	Clark Eldridge
Design	Deck Arch
Material	Concrete
Opened	1936
Heritage status	National Register of Historic Places, Seattle city landmark

The Cowen Park Bridge is a reinforced concrete arch bridge that spans a ravine in Seattle's Cowen Park. The structure is listed in the National Register of Historic Places,^[1] and it is a designated city landmark.^[2] The bridge has been praised for the 12-foot (3.7 m) Art Deco light standards along its sides.^[3]

It was built in 1936 under the authority of the Works Progress Administration. The bridge engineer was Clark Eldridge.^[4]

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↑ National Register of Historic Places; Annual Listing of Historic Properties (Part II). National Park Service. March 1, 1983. p. 8669.
↑ "Individual Landmarks". City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
↑ Kreisman, Lawrence (1999). Made To Last: Historic Preservation in Seattle and King County. Historic Seattle Preservation Foundation in association with the University of Washington Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-295-97846-8.
↑ Long, Priscilla (March 24, 2001). "WPA builds Cowen Park Bridge in Seattle's Ravenna neighborhood in 1936.". HistoryLink.org Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History. Retrieved March 2011.

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