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21 data pages
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TITLE:
Grand Avenue Viaduct, U.S. Highway 20, Business & State Highway 12, Sioux City, Woodbury County, IA

CALL NUMBER:
HAER IOWA,97-SIOCI,4-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 12   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 20 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Ash,Howard,Needles & Tammen
Lytle, C. F.

NOTE:
Survey number HAER IA-87

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N258).

Building/structure dates: 1936 initial construction

Significance: Extending for over three-quarters of a mile, the Grand Avenue Viaduct is Iowa's longest grade separation and the state's longest bridge except for the Mississippi River structures.

SUBJECTS:
IOWA--Woodbury County--Sioux City

OTHER TITLE:
Gordon Avenue Viaduct

COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ia0468

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. EAST APPROACH TO GRAND AVENUE VIADUCT LOOKING WEST.
2. OVERALL VIEW OF THE EAST PORTION OF VIADUCT, SOUTH SIDE, LOOKING NORTHWEST.
3. OVERALL VIEW OF THE CENTRAL PORTION OF VIADUCT, SOUTH SIDE, LOOKING NORTHEAST.
4. OVERALL VIEW OF THE WEST PORTION OF VIADUCT, SOUTH SIDE, LOOKING NORTHWEST.
5. GENERAL VIEW OF THE WEST ABUTMENT AND APPROACH, NORTH SIDE, LOOKING SOUTHWEST.
6. GENERAL VIEW OF THE WEST PORTION, NORTH SIDE, LOOKING EAST, SHOWING STAIRWAY TO PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY.
7. GENERAL VIEW OF VIADUCT CROSSING THE FLOYD RIVER, SOUTH SIDE, LOOKING NORTH.
8. GENERAL VIEW OF CENTRAL PORTION OF VIADUCT WITH STAIRWAY TO PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY, LOOKING EAST.
9. GENERAL VIEW OF THE CENTRAL PORTION OF VIADUCT SHOWING PIERS, FLOOR SYSTEM AND LATERAL BRACING, LOOKING WEST.
10. GENERAL VIEW OF THE CENTRAL PORTION OF VIADUCT SHOWING EXTENDED PIER AND FLOOR BEAM FOR SEMI ACCESS, LOOKING WEST.
11. GENERAL VIEW OF EASTERN PORTION OF VIADUCT, SOUTH SIDE LOOKING NORTHEAST.
12. GENERAL VIEW OF EASTERN PORTION OF VIADUCT, SOUTH SIDE, SHOWING CROSSING FOR STORM DRAINAGE, LOOKING NORTH.

CONTROL #:
IA0468

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