Bridge Name: | Veterans Memorial Bridge |
Carries: | Eight lanes of Pedestrians |
Crosses: | Genesee River |
Locale: | Rochester, New York |
Maint: | New York State Department of Transportation |
Architect: | Gehron & Ross |
Designer: | F. P. McKibben |
Material: | Steel faced with white granite |
Length: | 981feet |
Width: | 106feet |
Height: | 190feet |
Spans: | 3 |
Builder: | Booth & Flinn Company |
Preceded: | Driving Park Bridge |
Followed: | Kodak Park/Seneca Park pedestrian walkway |
The Veterans Memorial Bridge in Rochester, New York, carries New York State Route 104 (less well known as the Keeler Street Expressway) across the Genesee River. The bridge is an architecturally significant concrete arch faced with white granite. Conceived in 1928 and finished in 1931, the span is the longest bridge in Rochester at . It is in height and wide.
The bridge was originally connected to a traffic circle[1] but was changed to an interchange in the 1960s.[2]
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