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Q Street Bridge, Spanning Rock Creek & Potomac Parkway, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

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Summary

Significance: Q Street Bridge was designed by prominent architect Glenn Brown. It exemplifies the City Beautiful movement's influence on Washington. Together with the Connecticut Avenue Bridge (HAER No. DC-6), its arched masonry design established the pattern for other bridges along Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N133

Survey number: HAER DC-38

Building/structure dates: 1915 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1928 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1938 Initial Construction

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concrete arch bridges transportation city beautiful movement washington city bridge q street bridge rock creek potomac potomac parkway washington dc district of columbia a l guidone and co al guidone and co bedford brown glenn brown john gingles chester a harding historic american engineering record w v judson charles w kutz sara leach daniel b luten d e mccomb virginia b price alexander phimister proctor photo ultra high resolution high resolution architecture library of congress
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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Luten, Daniel B
Brown, Glenn
Brown, Bedford
A.L. Guidone & Co
McComb, D E
Proctor, A Phimister
Judson, W V
Harding, Chester A
Kutz, Charles W
A L Guidone & Co
Leach, Sara, transmitter
Price, Virginia B, transmitter
Gingles, John, sponsor
Gingles, John
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Location

Washington, District of Columbia, United States ,  38.90561, -77.05547
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Library of Congress
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http://www.loc.gov/
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concrete arch bridges transportation city beautiful movement washington city bridge q street bridge rock creek potomac potomac parkway washington dc district of columbia a l guidone and co al guidone and co bedford brown glenn brown john gingles chester a harding historic american engineering record w v judson charles w kutz sara leach daniel b luten d e mccomb virginia b price alexander phimister proctor photo ultra high resolution high resolution architecture library of congress