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Main Avenue Bridge

Bridges completed in 1939Bridges in ClevelandBridges over the Cuyahoga RiverCantilever bridges in the United StatesHistoric Civil Engineering Landmarks
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Main Avenue Bridge Looking West, Cleveland, Ohio Vintage Postcard
Main Avenue Bridge Looking West, Cleveland, Ohio Vintage Postcard

The Main Avenue (Harold H. Burton Memorial) Bridge (alternately Main Avenue Viaduct) is a cantilever truss bridge in Cleveland, Ohio carrying Ohio State Route 2/Cleveland Memorial Shoreway over the Cuyahoga River. The bridge, completed in 1939, is 8,000 feet (2,400 m) in length, and was the longest elevated structure in Ohio until the 2007 completion of the Veterans' Glass City Skyway in Toledo. It was named for Harold H. Burton, 45th mayor of Cleveland, in late January 1986. The bridge replaced an 1869 bridge at the same site, and was built in conjunction with construction of the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway.The bridge received extensive renovations 1991–1992; it subsequently received major structural repairs in 2007 and again in 2012–2013, both instances necessitating re-routing of large vehicles.The bridge is visible at the end of the "Cleveland Rocks" version of the opening credits of The Drew Carey Show.In 2013, the Federal Highway Administration listed the Main Avenue Bridge as "structurally deficient" and "fracture critical".The bridge has been designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

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Main Avenue Bridge
Cleveland Memorial Shoreway, Cleveland

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N 41.498662 ° E -81.7051315 °
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Cleveland Memorial Shoreway
44113 Cleveland
Ohio, United States
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Main Avenue Bridge Looking West, Cleveland, Ohio Vintage Postcard
Main Avenue Bridge Looking West, Cleveland, Ohio Vintage Postcard
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