Houston Street Viaduct
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Houston Street Viaduct
OR:
Houston Street Viaduct on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

The Houston Street Viaduct (formerly the Dallas-Oak Cliff Viaduct) is a
viaduct A viaduct is a specific type of bridge that consists of a series of arches, piers or columns supporting a long elevated railway or road. Typically a viaduct connects two points of roughly equal elevation, allowing direct overpass across a wide v ...
in
Dallas Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...
,
Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
, that carries Houston Street across the Trinity River, connecting
Downtown Dallas Downtown Dallas is the central business district (CBD) of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, located in the geographic center of the city. It is the second-largest business district in the state of Texas. The area termed "Downtown" has tradit ...
and
Oak Cliff Oak Cliff is a neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, that was formerly a separate town in Dallas County; Dallas annexed Oak Cliff in 1901. It has since retained a distinct neighborhood identity as one of Dallas' older established neighborhoods. Oak Cl ...
. Designed by Ira G. Hedrick, it was built in 1911, and is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
.


History

The viaduct project was conceived after the Great Trinity River Flood of 1908, which destroyed existing bridges connecting Oak Cliff with downtown Dallas. In 1909,
Dallas County Dallas County may refer to: Places in the USA: * Dallas County, Alabama, founded in 1818, the first county in the United States by that name * Dallas County, Arkansas * Dallas County, Iowa * Dallas County, Missouri * Dallas County, Texas, the nint ...
voters approved a $600,000 bond issue for the new bridge.


See also

*
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Texas __NOTOC__ This is a list of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in the U.S. state of Texas. Bridges Notes References {{HAER list, structure=bridge *List *List Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish ...
* List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas *
National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Texas This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Dallas County, Texas. There are ...


References


External links

* Bridges in Dallas Historic American Engineering Record in Texas National Register of Historic Places in Dallas Viaducts in the United States Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas {{dallas-stub