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The Arlington Memorial Bridge, often shortened to Memorial Bridge, is a Neoclassical masonry, steel, and stone arch bridge with a central bascule (or drawbridge) that crosses the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. First proposed in 1886, the bridge went unbuilt for decades thanks to political quarrels over ...
The CFA and NCPC first gave serious consideration to Kendall's preliminary design for the Virginia bridge approaches in January 1926, when they met jointly to discuss how the Virginia Arlington Memorial Bridge terminus would serve as a gateway to Washington, D.C. [9] The two bodies agreed to proceed with a refinement by urban planner C.A.S. Sinclair, who proposed a series of roads radiating ...
The construction of Arlington Memorial Bridge was a seven-year construction project in Washington, D.C., in the United States to construct the Arlington Memorial Bridge across the Potomac River. The bridge was authorized by Congress in February 1925, and was completed in January 1932.
The first major maintenance project since the opening of the Frederick Douglass-Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge in 2007 is now underway. The $5.3 million preventative project begins this month ...
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George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge, US 17 across York River between Yorktown, Virginia and Gloucester County; Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge, US 301 across Potomac River between Dahlgren and Maryland; Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, I-64 and US 60 between Norfolk and Hampton; Huguenot Memorial Bridge, VA 147 across James River between ...
The Arts of War and The Arts of Peace are bronze, fire-gilded statue groups on Lincoln Memorial Circle in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., in the United States.. Commissioned in 1929 to complement the plaza constructed on the east side of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the Arlington Memorial Bridge approaches, their completion was delayed until 1939 for budgeta
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