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General oblique view- east side of south end, from the Dos Hermanos Highway Bridge - Puente Guillermo Esteves, Spanning San Antonio Channel at PR-25 (Juan Ponce de Leon Avenue), San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR
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Mendez-Caratini, Hector, creator
Title
General oblique view- east side of south end, from the Dos Hermanos Highway Bridge - Puente Guillermo Esteves, Spanning San Antonio Channel at PR-25 (Juan Ponce de Leon Avenue), San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR
Depicted place Puerto Rico; San Juan Municipio; San Juan
Date 1995
date QS:P571,+1995-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER PR,7-SAJU,61-8
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  • Significance: Puente Guillermo Esteves, a five-span concrete and steel girder bridge, is the fourth structure to occupy this site since c.1521. The first was a stone causeway. It was followed by a stone arch bridge whose northern span ended against the gate of a fort which defended its northern end. Several important battles took place around the first two versions of the bridge and the fort. In 1894, the stone bridge was replaced by a four-span iron girder lattice bridge. The present structure, finished in 1927, carries most of the traffic entering historic San Juan islet. It is the work of Puerto Rican masters: engineers Rafael Nones and Felix Benitez-Rexach and architect Rafael Carmoega. Its northernmost span still rests on the fort's partly visible ruins. The girder structure is concealed by facade plates, together with the decorative cast iron lighting fixtures and the balustrades, convey the monumentality of this very important bridge in terms of historic site associations, access to the historic and waterfront districts, and traffic volume. It is mentioned in Puerto Rico's Historic Bridge Inventory and in the Multiple Property Nomination of Puerto Rico's Bridges and its Associated Historic Context, Land Transportation in Puerto Rico, c.1508-1950.
  • Survey number: HAER PR-36
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pr1475.photos.362811p
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