MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Black, Archibald, the Story of Bridges, MeGraw-Hill Company, 1936, po 69. Howe, Henry, Historical Collections of Ohio, 1888, published by the State of Ohio,p. 320. N.Y., 1957,pp. 159, 160, 161, 167 and 178. 1932, p. 203 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY - less than one UTM REFERENCES 8 20 VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Miriam F. Wood STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL - LOCAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).
I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE FOR NPS USE ONLY DIRECTOR. OFFICE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 892-453 NORTHING COUNTY ORGANIZATION DATE CODE TELEPHONE STATE 614-279-9576 Columbus ZONE EASTING 3155 Whitehead Road THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: I HEREBY CERTIFY THATTHIS PROPERTY IS /NCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER ZONE Ohio ATTEST: SH PO 1442:9940 Form No. 10-300a (Rev.
10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES JUN 2 2 1976 INVENTORY -- NOMINA TION FORM DATE ENTERED CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE RECEIVED Bellaire Railroad Viaduct Wendell Bollman and Jacob Hayes Linville. Mr.Howe noted that this old stone viaduct was a very picturesque feature of link, still carrying traffic daily after lol years of service.It is sig- were two of the most outstanding railroad bridge engineers of their day, Mr.Howe, the viaduct and steel bridge cost over l million dollars to build. the town of Bellaire. FOR NPS USE ONLY structure a beloved landmark in that city.It is also an important railroad nificant to us because of its beauty of design and the fact that its builders B&O Railroad Bridge Over the Ohio River at Benwood, W. Virginia (1871) HAER, Washington, D.
C.] The Parkersburg Branch was much more suitable as a route to the west since it lay in a more direct line to Cincinnati and St. Louis. Because it as further south on the river, Parkersburg was also particularly in period of low water. Wheeling, on the other hand, was more this situation entirely. Suddenly, the Central Ohio Railroad, which ran from Bellaire, Ohio (across the river from Benwood, W. Va.) to Columbus was on Lake Michigan. The Ba0 acquired the Central Ohio, and shortly after (February 1869), the Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark Railroad, which joined it at Newark, Ohio. The latter line gave the company access to Sandusky, a busy port on the shore of Lake Erie, and the possibility of a connection to bridge linking the Wheeling line with the Central Ohio. Ferry service between Benwood, 4 miles south of Wheeling, and Bellaire, Ohio, had been Chicago.
growth as a manufacturing center justified continued rail service, during the plans for future expansion.By 1865, the rapid growth of Chicago had changed in a better position to capitalize on the trans-shipment of river cargo HAER diminished.*[See Report on Grafton Machine Shop, Northwestern Va. R.R., The growth of Chicago during the 60's increased the desirability ofa ofa dead end in termos of these westerly connections.Although its With the completion of the Parkersburg Branch inl1857(Northwestern Va. R.R.), the importance of the BGo's main line to Wheeling was temporarily Suppliee by period 1855-65, it was not considered of equal importance in the B8O's established in 1855 or '56. By 1865, the intention to expand this line After the Civil War, the increased competition for western traffic placed a premium on improved service.
By upgrading their track, motive power, repair and handling facilities, the major railroads sought to In other words, each railroad sought to make these differences between railroads as well. Hence, the B&O's decision to make the Wheeling line Beenwood ferry would have to be eliminated. of 90 feet above low water and a channel span of at least 300 feet. The The intense competition between the railroads and the steamboat to be a great stimulus toward the development of long-span truss engineering.
The next decade was a tremendously productive one in which engineers condified by an Act of Congress which stipulated that bridges over the industry placed restrictions on the height and length of bridges over a main artery to Chicago meant that the noisome bottleneck at the next adjoining span was to be no less than 220 feet.Although these to Sandusky and then to Chicago made the ferry connection inadequate. *[See B&O Railroad Bridge over the Ohio River at Parkersburg, W. Va.] types of carriers into a competitive advantage between itself and other restrictions were obviously intended to make the construction of bridges speed and their relative indifference to adverse weather conditions.
successfully responded to this challenge.*[See Parkersburg Bridge Report, navigable rivers.*[Ibid.p.] By 1862,these restrictions had been Ohio River above the mouth of the Big Sandy should have a minimum clearance HAER, Washington, D. C.] material could not bear. In addition to lateral forces, there were making them more difficult and expensive to produce and more likely to fracture in deflection. Large cast iron chords, in particular, were under iron chords and posts was a prerequisite to the full realization of long span bridges in the late 1860's. advantage of Carnegie's Union Iron Mill (Carnegie, Kloman & Co.) in efficient in existence. The Keystone company was formed with an eye to mathematical and mechanical techniques for determining the stresses on members. As spans grew in length, their depth increased accordingly.
heavy tensile stress from their own weight.The development of wrought the new technology of all-wrought iron construction.These were the products inherent limitations to the practical size of cast iron compression elimination of cast-iron from truss construction.Advances in the the country and its rolling mills were probably the most versatile and of wind pressure subjected these members to tensile strains which the members revealed the shortcomings of cast iron for chords and posts.
of the Keystone Bridge Co., designed by its president Jacob Linville.The providing a guaranteed market for the products of the Union Iron Mill.It The channel spans of the Benwood bridge were among the first to utilize The development of long-span bridges is characterized by the The result was that chord sections and posts grew in length and diameter, company had been formed in 1865 by Linville and Andrew Carnegie to take Pittsburgh. The Union Iron Mill's Lucy Furnace was one of the largest in This was particularly important in long spans since the lateral forces was based on the acquisition of the firm of Piper, Shiffler & Co., company, while J. L. Piper was appointed general manager. Carnegie, although of demands on his time at the mill. In all likelihood, he was probably adequately informed on comings and goings by his brother, Thomas, who served as treasurer.
With Linville in charge of design, the Keystone Bridge Company built hundreds of bridges of both timber and iron in its first decade (1868-70) and those of its sister bridge at Parkersburg (348' 9" and 347' 9") just recently completed. Like the others, the span at Benwood was completely over the Ohio River at Parkersburg, W. Va., HAER, Washington, D.
C.] The HAER file.] tubular chords *[Keystone Bridge Co.Album....plate 6] and new techniques for of existence.*[Keystone Bridge Co.,Album (No place,1874) pp.7-10,34-42.] department of the Penn Railroad.Linville became president of the new the manufacture of tension members and detailed connections.*[For a full account of the details of construction,see report on the Bgo Railroad Bridge 125'completed the iron work.*[Album...p.34;Copy of blueprint in When it opened in June of 1871,the Benwood Bridge was one of the most deck trusses (205'), 8 spans of Bollman trusses varying in length from about he was a director, held no formal position in the company - probably because was exceeded only by two spans of Fink's Ohio River Bridge at Louisville and Linville, including the use of their composite "trussed" posts and No less impressive than the ironwork were the approaches on both the It still reamins as one of the most striking features of the whole, although some of the arches have been encased with sprayed mortar.
On the Benwood side, a 270° loop was built to allow trains from Wheeling to ascend to the engineering innovation, they were nonetheless distinguished by the scale of their construction. The arcade alone contained 14,854 cubic Years of masonry; the piers and abutments consumed another 25,375 cubic yards. The entire Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad in 1871, it gained a line from Work began immediately on the new line to Chicago, the Baltimore, Pittsburgh, north of Newark, Ohio, on the Newark-Sandusky route. From there, it proceeded this last leg was finished in November 1874, the BGO was ready to reap the Benwood and Bellaire sides.The Bellaire approach was aggraceful masonry astronomical sum in 1871. *[Hungerford...p.
110.] Railroad, it extended that line to Washington, Pennsylvania, from which point dividends of its investment in the Benwood Bridge.*[Ibid...p.108].The due west 263 miles to Baltimore Junction on the outskirts of Chicago.When level of the easternmost span. *[See Condit...pp. 121-22].Although these arched viaduct,43 spans of 33'4",which curved 6°to right going east. bridges was 8,566 feet in length and cost well over a mi1lion do1lars -an Cumberland to Pittsburgh.Through acquisition of the Pittsburgh Southern burgeoning manufacturing centers of the upper Midwest.By completion of the features were not as important as the iron spans in terms of the history of the Bg0's Hempfield Railroad carried it to Wheeling.*[Hungerford...p. 156]. The Benwood Bridge was precipitant to the Bgo's expansion into the and in new engineering technology was a sound one.
The subsequent history of the Benwood Bridge is similar to that of its were succeeded in 1893 by wrought iron and then again in 1921 by steel plate *[Ibid.] By this time, the techniques of stress analysis had been refined to The first spans to go were the two Bollman trusses at the western end.These growth of Chicago in the 70s and 80s proved that the investment in money As the size and speed of trains increased the 1871 structure became obsolete. (spans 1-7)were replaced in 1900 by steel structures fabricated by the American Bridge Co.Linville's channel spans lasted until 1904when they too PP.139-140.] sister bridge at Parkersburg. *[See Report on Parkersburg Bridge, HAER.] were succeeded by steel trusses (also made by the American Bridge Co.) weaknesses.
Consequently, the original spans were found to be inadequate by girders.*[See blueprint in HAER file].The remaining Bollman trusses Photos - JUN 2 2 1976 KEEPER OTHER CONTROL TECHNICAL Entered HAER Inventory Re-submit Maps Send-back Property HISTORIAN Belmont REVIEW UNIT CHIEF National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry State BRANCH CHIEF United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN IN T:2106 - 74 ARCHEOLOGIST 3.22.76 PARI Form No. 10-301a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAR 2 PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM JUN 2 2 1976 TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH Bellaire Viaduct or B & 0 Railroad Viaduct AND/OR COMMON CITY, TOWN VICINITY OF PHOTO REFERENCE Times-Leader, Bellaire. DATE OF PHOTO October 1975 NEGATIVE FILED AT Bellaire, Ohio DESCRIBE VIEW.
DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET Stone Bridge, Bellaire looking east GPO 892- 454 LOCATION Times-Leader IDENTIFICATION HISTORIC RECIEVED PHOTO CREDIT PHOTO NO. NAME DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS STATEOhio FOR NPS USE ONLY 160 989 17 6 177 NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER (Bellaue Viaduct) Form No. 10-301a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM JUN 2 2 1976 DATE ENTERED TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH Bellaire Viaduct or B & 0 Railroad Viaduct AND/OR COMMON CITY. TOWN _VICINITY OF COUNTYBelmont DATE OF PHOTO0ctober 1975 Bellaire, Ohio PHOTO No.
2 0f 3 GPO 892-454 IDENTIFICATION LOCATION HISTORIC RECIEVED NAME PHOTO REFERENCE SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS FOR NPS USE ONLY STATEOhio NEGATIVE FILED AT Times-Leader PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Form No. 10-301a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAR 2 1976 PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM JUN 2 2 1976 TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH AND/OR COMMON CITY. TOWN Bellaire, Ohio VICINITY OF PHOTO CREDIT Times-Leader DATE OF PHOTO October 1975 Bellaire, Ohio NEGATIVE FILED AT Times-Leader, Bellaire, Ohio DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION. ETC.
IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET GPO 892-454 Belmont IDENTIFICATION COUNTY HISTORIC STATE LOCATION RECIEVED PHOTO REFERENCE NAME DATE ENTERED 3ist Street Ohio SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS PHOTO NO. Bellaire Viaduct or B G O Railroad Viaduct Form No. 10-301 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MAR 2 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH MAP Bellaire Viaduct or B & 0 Railroad Viaduct AND/OR COMMON CITY. TOWN _VICINITY OF V. S. Geological Map, Wheeling Quadrangle 72 minute quadrangles TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. PROPERTY BOUNDARIES 2. NORTH ARROW 3.
UTM REFERENCES GPO 892-452 LOCATION HISTORIC SOURCE STATE Bellaire DATE RECEIVED COUNTY REQUIREMENTS SCALE Belmont INT:2427-74 3lst Street Ohio NAME MAP REFERENCE FOR NPS USE ONLY 1:24000 UNITED STATE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WHEELING QUADRANGLE Long. 80 44 465 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 2. ADDRESS (Tel. No. if needed) GPO 897-848 TELEPHONE REPORT WASO-166 DETAILS OF DISCUSSION (August 1971) 3. SUSJECT, PROJECT NO., U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (August 1971) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TIME OF CAL ADDRESS (Tel. No. if needed) 4. DETAILS OF DISCUSSION BILL LEBOUCH GPO 897-848 DATE TELEPHONE REPORT 3:30 3. SUBJECT, PROJECT NO., ETC. OFFICE TITLE WASO-166 NAME OF PERSON PLACING/RECEIVING CALL Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. Hon.
Wayne Iu Hays Director, The Ohio Historical Society Columbus, Ohto 73211 Mott 6/24/76 INT: 2950-75 Location Belmont County STATE Name Also Notified Date Entered State Historic Preservation Officer ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Regional Director, Midwest Region Dr. Thomas H. Smith (Bellaire Viaduct) Bellaire Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue B & O Railroad Viaduct OHIO -LOCATION street & number (12 SOURCE of NOMINATION 1 CONDITION - deteriorated 1features: Oruins 9O NOT INTACT-O -unexposed - Unknown Ounexcavated ACCESS - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?
Dyes Ono -RECREATION-28 @CLAIMS: explain CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric -2 - LAW - 16 C RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 CARCHEOLOGY -historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 -EXPLORATION - 12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANMING-31 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 C MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY- 13 C MUSIC - 19 O SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 'only' D CART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 TRANSPORTATION - 25 3 funetions major alterations : CURRENTLY: Bridae 3) interior decorator: artist: EVENTS : IIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED.
NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE ASSOCIATION FEDERAL builder/contractor: ENGINEERING-11 INSTITUTIONAL: ENTERTAINMENT-26 PERSONAL: STATE WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: vicinity of historic events: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 ADMINISTRATOR: COMMERCE-6 Zoriginal site landscape architect/ garden designer: dates of initial construction: NOT APPLICABLE-7 LOCAL Xunaltered if state who prepared form? Dexcellent mon master builder: 4county code SAVED? YES GNPS REGION: Dmoved 2 OTHER NAMES: 5XINKNOWN -6 21 AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 C POLITICS / GOVT.~ 21 - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER (SPECIFY) ) architectural style(s): @engineer: Wencell Boll man & Jacob H. LINVILLE ETHNIC GROUP MIDWEST DNAME as it appears on federal register: Linville, promument Iq th c. railroad bridge engweers. Ofair Lcity/town