N. Franklin Street
Elevation drawing of the Bridge Tender Houses (1916)
(Courtesy of the Chicago Department of Transportation - Division of Engineering)
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- Dedicated: 10/23/1920
- Designers: Thomas G. Pihlfeldt, Hugh E. Young, John Ericson, Edward Bennett
- Classification:Single Deck; Pony Trusses
- Clear Span: 220 feet
- Trunnion-to-Trunnion Span: 252 feet
- Width: 62 feet
- Leaf Weight: 1,800 tons
- Height above the Water: 18 feet
- Construction Cost in 1920: $1.1 million
- Average Daily Foot Traffic (1999): 6,594
- Average Daily Vehicular Traffic (2006): 17,000
- Annual Lifts (2006): 36
- Last Rehabilitated: 2002
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