Crawford Street Bridge (Providence, Rhode Island)

This article is about the bridge in Providence. For the bridge in Toronto, see Crawford Street Bridge.

The Crawford Street Bridge was a concrete and steel bridge over the Providence River in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. It was originally built from 1873 to 1904 and then rebuilt starting in 1930. Composed of a set of interconnected bridges that span the river, it had a total area of over 3 acres (1.2 hectares) and covered nearly a quarter of a mile of the river. At 1,147 feet (350 m) wide,^[2] it was the world's widest bridge, and listed in the 1988 Guinness Book of World Records.^[3]

Crawford Street Bridge
Crawford Street Bridge in 2019
Coordinates	41.8242°N 71.4079°W / 41.8242; -71.4079
Crosses	Providence River
Locale	Providence, Rhode Island
Official name	Robert E. Rowan, P.E. Bridge[1]
History
Opened	1873
Rebuilt	1930, 1982
Statistics
Daily traffic	automobiles and pedestrians
Location

As part of a downtown redevelopment project, the massive bridge was substantially demolished in 1982, replaced with several narrower bridges for individual streets and exposing the Providence River to create a more pedestrian-friendly cityscape.^[4]

Crawford Street bridge in 1906

See also

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• Rhode Island portal