What is Ellsworth Street Bridge?
{{Infobox Bridge |bridge_name=Ellsworth Street Bridge |image=Ellsworth Street Bridge black and white.jpeg |carries={{jct|state=OR|US|20}} |crosses=[[Willamette River]] |locale=[[Albany, Oregon]] |maint=[[Oregon Department of Transportation]] |design=[[Truss bridge]] |mainspan=800 feet |length=1090 feet |width=26 feet |below= |open=1926 |coordinates = {{coord|44.6393|-123.106635|display=inline,title}} }} The '''Ellsworth Street Bridge ''' is a highway bridge that crosses the [[Willamette River]] in [[Albany, Oregon]], [[United States]]. Built in 1925, the two-lane structure carries [[U.S. Route 20 in Oregon|U.S. Route 20]] eastbound traffic, with the adjacent [[Lyon Street Bridge]] carrying westbound traffic. The {{convert|1090|ft|m|sing=on}}-long steel-[[truss bridge]] was designed by [[Conde McCullough]] and opened in 1926. ==History== In 1887, a bridge was built across the Willamette River at Albany for the [[Corvallis and Eastern]] railway followed by the Steel Bridge built in 1893 just down river.<ref>[http://www.ci.albany.or.us/comdev/projects/narp/milestones.html North Albany Milestones.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724120454/http://www.ci.albany.or.us/comdev/projects/narp/milestones.html |date=2011-07-24 }} City of Albany. Retrieved on April 19, 2008.</ref> The state of [[Oregon]] began building a new bridge across the river at the city in 1925 to carry vehicular traffic.<ref name=book>Smith, Dwight A., James B. Norman, and Pieter T. Dykman. [http://cce.oregonstate.edu/about/history/mac/albany.htm ''Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613014050/http://cce.oregonstate.edu/about/history/mac/albany.htm |date=2010-06-13 }} Salem, Or: Oregon Dept. of Transportation, Environmental Section, 1985. p. 76.</ref> Designed by state highway department bridge designer Conde McCullough, it was constructed by the Union Bridge Company based in [[Portland, Oregon]].<ref name=book/> The [[steel truss]] structure was completed in 1926.<ref name=adh>Ro