Insights from the Virginia Street Bridge Demolition and Replacement Project, Reno NV
Author(s): Shaun Richey; Amanda Rankin
Year: 2016
Summary
The Virginia Street Bridge, one of the oldest reinforced concrete bridges in the west, located in downtown Reno, Nevada, was built in 1905 and designed by the well know architect John B. Leonard. The bridge stood on the founding location for the city of Reno and with its construction shifted the commercial core of Reno away from the railroad and to the Truckee River making the area around the bridge a center point for commerce in the city. Because of the bridge’s loss of structural integrity the city of Reno had to replace the historic bridge in the summer of 2015. This demolition and replacement was permitted by the Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Highways Administration and therefore required compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act. During removal of the bridge discoveries of infrastructure related to the industrial and commercial history of the city of Reno were encountered.
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Insights from the Virginia Street Bridge Demolition and Replacement Project, Reno NV. Shaun Richey, Amanda Rankin. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434885)
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Keywords
General
20th Century
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Bridges
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Commerce
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Nevada
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Transportation
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
20th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 929