Viaducts: Blue Ridge Parkway bridge types drawing sheet – Vintage Wall Art
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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Viaducts: Blue Ridge Parkway bridge types drawing sheet. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Viaducts: Blue Ridge Parkway bridge types drawing sheet
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This sheet sets out the bridge types the Blue Ridge Parkway needed to cross its steep ridges, deep gorges, and river valleys, where a road could not simply follow the contour. Work on the parkway began in 1935 as a New Deal project, and its engineers relied heavily on stone-faced concrete arch viaducts that blended into the mountain landscape. The drawing's value lies in showing how the designers adapted one roadway to many different ground conditions. The parkway's most celebrated span, the Linn Cove Viaduct around Grandfather Mountain, was not completed until 1983, long after most of the road was open.
| Original scan | 9,875 × 14,420 px · prints to 33 × 48 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 00023a |
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