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City of Pasadena's History Page, with a historic postcard view of the bridge. Colorado Street Bridge Pasadena, California, National Park Service; History of the Colorado Street Bridge from Pasadena Heritage; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. CA-58, "Colorado Street Bridge", 13 photos, 34 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
The bridge has been the site of some accidental injuries and fatalities over the years. [6] [7] The bridge has also become integrated with the surrounding community as a place for seclusion and for graffiti art. [8] The City of Pasadena proposed a seismic retrofit project for the Holly Street Bridge in 2019.
The Seco Street Bridge; The Colorado Street Bridge (Pasadena, California), a concrete arch road bridge built in Pasadena in 1913 to carry Colorado Boulevard over the Arroyo; The Pioneers Bridge, another concrete arch road bridge built immediately north of the Colorado Street Bridge in the 1950s to carry State Route 134 over the Arroyo
Eventually assistance from the Federal Bridge Repair and Replacement Fund and other local governmental agency discretionary funds provided funding for the complete restoration and seismic retrofit of the bridge. The total project budget amounted to $24 million, and the Colorado Street Bridge was reopened on December 13, 1993, on time and on budget.
Two of Pasadena's historic bridges, the Colorado Street Bridge, built in 1913 and known for its distinctive Beaux Arts arches, light standards, and railings, and the La Loma Bridge, built in 1914, are among the sites listed on the Register. Thirty-one of Pasadena's listings are historic districts, which include multiple contributing properties.
Built in 1914, the bridge replaced the 1898 California Street Bridge, which had closed the prior year due to safety concerns. The open spandrel concrete arch bridge has a Neoclassical design inspired by the City Beautiful movement. The bridge's design is reminiscent of Pasadena's Colorado Street Bridge, which was built a year earlier. La Loma ...
The southernmost of the Pasadena Arroyo Seco bridges, the San Rafael Bridge was constructed in 1922 in Pasadena, California. [1] Like the Colorado Street Bridge built in 1913 and La Loma Bridge (renamed John K. Van De Kamp Bridge in 2017) built in 1914, the San Rafael Bridge is an open-spandrel concrete arch bridge that is open to pedestrians and car traffic. [2]
The route used the Arroyo Seco's west bank to near Hough Street, where it crossed to the east and cut through South Pasadena to the south end of Broadway (now Arroyo Parkway) in Pasadena. Another project, the Arroyo Seco Flood Control Channel, was built by the Works Progress Administration before and during construction of the parkway to avoid ...