| Crosses: | Schuylkill River | ||||||||||||||||||
| Locale: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bridge Name: | University Avenue Bridge | ||||||||||||||||||
| Official Name: | University Avenue Bridge | ||||||||||||||||||
| Carries: | University Avenue | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner: | Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, 1961, formerly City of Philadelphia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Maint: | PennDOT | ||||||||||||||||||
| Designer: | Paul Philippe Cret, architect, and Stephen H. Noyes, engineer | ||||||||||||||||||
| Material: | steel, limestone, concrete, bronze | ||||||||||||||||||
| Length: | 536feet | ||||||||||||||||||
| Width: | 100feet | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spans: | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Pierswater: | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Below: | 30feet | ||||||||||||||||||
| Builder: | Dravo Contracting Company | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 39.9417°N -75.1978°W | ||||||||||||||||||
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The University Avenue Bridge is a double-leaf bascule bridge crossing the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The four-lane bridge links University Avenue in West Philadelphia with South 34th Street in the Grays Ferry section of South Philadelphia. It measures 536feet long, 100feet wide, and clears the water by 30feet.[1]
Built in 1930, the bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 26, 1994.[2]