File:Photocopy of drawing (this photograph is an 8''x 10'' contact print; January, 1995 revision of a July 11, 1973 as built drawing by A. Rivera-Cruz, in possession of the Highway System HAER PR-42-4.tif

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Photocopy of drawing (this photograph is an 8''x 10'' contact print; January, 1995 revision of a July 11, 1973 as built drawing by A. Rivera-Cruz, in possession of the Highway System Administration Office of the Puerto Rico Highway and Transportation Authority) Bridge over Rio Grande de Arecibo, Route no. 2 Km. 74.75. Bridge no. 44. no. 2 of 4. - Puente del Rio Grande de Arecibo, Spanning Rio Grande de Arecibo Channel, Cambalache neighborhood, Arecibo, Arecibo Municipio, PR
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Nones, Rafael; Gonzalez, Adriano; Arqueologia Industrial Caribena, contractor; Calloway, Deborah, transmitter; Mendez-Caratini, Hector, photographer; Pumarada-O'Neill, Luis, historian
Depicted place Puerto Rico; Arecibo Municipio; Arecibo
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 8 x 10 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PR-42-4
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Puente del Rio Grande de Arecibo (Bridge No. 44) is a two-lane, 10-span, 99.20 meter-long and 8.03-meter wide steel beam bridge. Its remaining art deco ornamentation consists of geometric features of exposed aggregate delineated by moldings. It has lost its balustrades and original cast iron decorative lamp posts. This structure was finished in 1925 as part of a very important highway project, the Variante de Arecibo, which for the first time carried a highway across the delta of the Rio Grande de Arecibo. The widest body of water in this delta is the flood channel called Rio Grande de Arecibo, surely named thus because it was once the main course of the river. The Variante project, which solved important engineering problems of foundations and flooding, was designed by Rafael Nones, Puerto Rico's most prolific bridge engineer, as a submersible causeway interrupted by five steel beam bridges and six smaller concrete box-culvert bridges. It connected the city of Arecibo and the western two thirds of Highway No. 2 with San Juan and the rest of the northern coast of Puerto Rico. This bridge has been judged as eligible for National Register listing by Puerto Rico's State Historic Conservation Office, but it was heavily damaged by a 1999 flood and is now under a Bailey truss temporary bridge.
  • Survey number: HAER PR-42
  • Building/structure dates: 1927 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pr1500.photos.203021p
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