Strawberry Mansion Bridge

The Strawberry Mansion Bridge is a steel arch truss bridge across the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[1][2]

Strawberry Mansion Bridge
View from the Temple University boathouse
Coordinates	39°59′42″N 75°11′38″W
Carries	Strawberry Mansion Drive
Crosses	Schuylkill River, Schuylkill River Trail, Kelly Drive, Martin Luther King Drive
Locale	Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Official name	Strawberry Mansion Bridge
Other name	Park Trolley Bridge
Characteristics
Design	Steel arch
Total length	1,242.2 feet (378.6 m)
Width	80.0 feet (24.4 m): roadway, originally 40.0 feet (12.2 m)), currently 32.2 feet (9.8 m)); pedestrian walk 12.0 feet (3.7 m); former trolley right-of-way 28.0 feet (8.5 m)
Longest span	200.1 feet (61.0 m)
History
Opened	April 20, 1897, reopened 1995
Closed	1991-1995 for renovations
Statistics
Daily traffic	14,500 (1996)
Toll	none
Location
Interactive map of Strawberry Mansion Bridge

Roadway on left, pedestrian walk, former trolley tracks on right

It was built in 1896–1897 by the Phoenix Iron Company in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania,^[3] under private ownership by the Fairmount Park Transportation Company, which operated trolleys over the bridge,^[2] with pedestrian and carriage lanes on the north side. Trolley service was discontinued in 1946.

The Philadelphia Historical Commission designated the bridge as a historic structure on September 7, 1978.

From 1991 to 1995, the bridge was closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic while it was restored to its historical appearance. As of 2024, the bridge remains in use, carrying vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

The bridge was featured in season 9, episode 5 of the American sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, titled "Mac Day."

See also

• Philadelphia portal

• Historic Strawberry Mansion, from which the bridge takes its name
• List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania
• List of crossings of the Schuylkill River