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The 16th Street Bridge, also known as the Piney Branch Bridge, is an automobile and pedestrian bridge that carries 16th Street NW over Piney Branch and Piney Branch Parkway in Washington, D.C. It was the first parabolic arch bridge in the United States. Construction on the first span began in 1905 as part of the northward extension of 16th ...
Piney Branch is a tributary of Rock Creek in Washington, D.C. It is the largest tributary located entirely within the Washington city limits. It is spanned by the 16th Street Bridge , the country's first parabolic arch bridge.
Pierce Mill Bridge Extant Steel built-up girder: 1895 1992 Tilden Street, NW Rock Creek: DC-29: Sixteenth Street Bridge Extant Reinforced concrete closed-spandrel arch: 1910 1992 16th Street, NW: Piney Branch and Piney Branch Parkway, NW
The trail section between Shoreham Drive and Broad Branch was widened to 8–10 ft (2.4–3.0 m), repaved and realigned; the Shoreham Drive crossing, reworked in 2006, was again improved; the traffic lanes in the Zoo Tunnel were narrowed to widen the trail through it by 3 ft (0.91 m); a new access to Harvard Street was built and 1,000 ft (300 m ...
But bridging the natural obstacle of the Piney Branch valley—with the nation's first parabolic arch bridge—would take until 1909. [18] University Club (left), built in 1904, and the Russian Ambassador's residence (right), built in 1910.
The stone abutments and piers date from the original pre-Civil War period of construction, but other components have been replaced several times, most recently in 1981 when the current bridge span was built. [2] Six stone arch bridges remain. They can be found at Clark's Gap, Sugarland Run, Piney Branch, Hamilton, Paeonian Springs and Four Mile ...
Gov. Wes Moore revealed the new design of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge that collapsed into the Patapsco River after being struck by vessel that lost power on March, 26, 2025.
The Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Trail (WB&A) is a 10.25-mile (16.50 km) long, discontinuous rail trail from Lanham to Odenton in Maryland.The trail gets its name from the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway on whose right-of-way it runs, but does not connect to any of the cities in its name.