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Virginia Street Bridge : ウィキペディア英語版 | Virginia Street Bridge
The Virginia Street Bridge was a historic concrete double arch bridge in downtown Reno, Nevada, USA, carrying Virginia Street across the Truckee River.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/nevada/vir.htm )〕 It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The bridge is sometimes referred to as the "Wedding Ring Bridge" or the "Bridge of Sighs".〔 In both 2002 and 2006, the bridge was listed as one of the "Eleven Most Endangered Historic Places in Nevada" by Preserve Nevada, a historic preservation organization partnered with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://preservenevada.unlv.edu/endangered_sites.html )〕 Due to structural and flood-control concerns, the bridge is due to be replaced by 2016.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://vsbreno.com/ )〕 ==History==
Built in 1905, the current Virginia Street Bridge is the fifth in a series of bridges to have been built in downtown Reno. The first was a wooden bridge built in 1860 by Charles W. Fuller and was hence called Fuller's Crossing.〔〔 After it was destroyed by a flood, a second bridge, a toll bridge, was built and sold to Myron Lake in 1861, although in 1867 it was also destroyed by a flood.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.reno.gov/Index.aspx?page=1572 )〕 Even though it was replaced by yet another bridge, it became unneeded after the arrival of the Transcontinental Railroad.〔 In 1877, the Washoe County authorized the creation of a new tied-arch bridge made of iron.〔 In 1905, the iron bridge was moved and the current bridge, designed by San Francisco architect John B. Leonard, was built by Cotton Brothers and Company of Oakland, California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.scenicnevada.org/last/bridge.html )〕
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