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The Falls Bridge is a steel Pratt truss bridge that spans the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It connects Kelly (formerly East River) Drive at Calumet Street with Martin Luther King, Jr. (formerly West River) Drive at Neill Drive. It replaced a wooden covered bridge at the same site. The bridge, with stonemasonry abutments and two stonemasonry piers, with three Pratt-type pin-connected trusses, was built in 1894–1895 at a cost of $262,000 by Filbert Porter & Co. under the direction of Chief Engineer George Smedley Webster (1855–1931) of the Philadelphia Department of Public Works and James H. Windrim, director of the Department of Public Works. The bridge was designed as a double-decker bridge, but the upper deck was never built for lack of funds. The bridge carries two lanes of vehicular traffic on a roadway, with sidewalks on either side, for a total width of . In 2007, blue LED lights were added to highlight the bridge at night. File:Schuylkill river.jpeg|Note the Reading Railroad Bridge and the Falls (Covered) Bridge in this 1872 map. File:View from Laurel Hill cemetery, Phila, by Kilburn Brothers.jpg|"View from Laurel Hill Cemetery." Reading Railroad Bridge, with Falls (Covered) Bridge in the distance (circa 1880s). File:Philadelphia. (Bridge over the Schuylkill River), from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.jpg|"Philadelphia. (Bridge over the Schuylkill River)", undated. This photograph may show the Falls (Covered) Bridge. ==See also== *List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania *List of crossings of the Schuylkill River 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Falls Bridge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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