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VIADUCT AT NORTH END AS IT TURNS INTO BATTERY STREET TUNNEL TO LEFT CENTER OF PICTURE. - Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle, King County, WA
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Lowe, Jet, creator
Title
VIADUCT AT NORTH END AS IT TURNS INTO BATTERY STREET TUNNEL TO LEFT CENTER OF PICTURE. - Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle, King County, WA
Description
City of Seattle Engineering Department; Washington Department of Highways Bridge Division; Washington State Department of Transportation; Bollong, J W A; Murray, Ray; Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc.; McRae Brothers; Stevens, George; Rumsey and Company; Finke, R W; Northwest Engineering Electric Company; Pacific Car and Foundry; Willar Construction Company; Willar Construction Company; Washington State Department of Transportation, sponsor; Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Depicted place Washington; King County; Seattle
Date 2008
Dimensions 5 x 7 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 WA-184-19
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The Alaskan Way Viaduct is significant for its double-deck configuration, the first such bridge built in the state of Washington. The structure encompasses two different designs and crosses over highly complex subsurface conditions, supported throughout its length on pile foundations.

The Battery Street Tunnel was the City of Seattle Engineering Department's first venture into tunnel design. It was designed and built to minimize traffic disruption and reduce risk to neighboring buildings. Its health and safety features were innovative at the time, including a ventilation system actuated by carbon monoxide monitors and a heat-actuated automatic sprinkler system. The viaduct and the tunnel played an important role in the development of Seattle and the region by providing a direct connection through downtown Seattle and to the industrial areas to the south.

  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1131
  • Survey number: HAER WA-184
  • Building/structure dates: 1949-1966 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/wa0830.photos.366413p
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