Slide Title
Preview

Date
Winter 2-1972
Description
Beginning in the late 1940s, efforts towards the construction of a bridge linking Jamestown to Newport began. From the 1940s on, at least 32 engineering studies were made for possible location of a suspension or cantilever bridge, a tunnel or combinations thereof. The original proposal of 1950, tying a bridge to Newport’s Ocean Drive, was approved by the Navy but not by many local residents. The engineering firm of Parsons,Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas, first made famous for founder William Barclay Parsons’ designs of the New York City subway system and the Cape Cod Canal, recommended a bridge from Taylor’s Point in Jamestown to Washington Street in Newport. After the Navy approved the proposal for the design and clearance heights, the line suggested by the firm was used for the location of the bridge.
Creator 1 Role
Photographer
Building Type
Bridge
Subject Headings
Civil Engineering -- Transportation Engineering -- Rhode Island -- Newport;
Country Name
United States of America
Region Name
Rhode Island
City Name
Newport
Recommended Citation
Smolski, Chet, "Newport Bridge" (1972). Browse All. 296.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/296
Keywords
highways; architecture, American; Newport, Rhode Island;
Notes
http://www.ritba.org/nbbackground.html