The Cinderella Bridge

The Cinderella Bridge, The Castle Bridge, The Walt Disney Bridge and The Silver Bridge are all the names that are given to this bridge in Mill Creek... more

by Marcia Colelli

Title

The Cinderella Bridge

Artist

Marcia Colelli

Medium

Photograph - Photographs

Description

The Cinderella Bridge, The Castle Bridge, The Walt Disney Bridge and The Silver Bridge are all the names that are given to this bridge in Mill Creek Park, Youngstown, Ohio.
Mill Creek Park suspension bridge - Youngstown, Ohio
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1976. Ohio Department of Transportation Structure File Number 5059941.

A product of Youngstown's own Youngstown Bridge Company, this bridge is unlike any other bridge built by the company that survives today. The bridge uses an eye bar chain suspension system that was common in the United Kingdom but is extremely rare in the United States, with only a few examples present. The ornate decorations on this bridge also seem somewhat European as well, with decorative finals, portal cresting, and decorative railings. The eye bar suspension system is in its own right unusual and noteworthy, but even among eye bar chains it is somewhat unusual because it consists of two eye bar chains connected by additional eye bars, making it much like a "trussed eye bar chain."

In 2007 the historic integrity of this bridge was severely altered with the installation of a steel stringer bridge and complete removal of the entire flooring system and placement of a pier in the center of the bridge. The suspension system today is no longer functional and is merely a decoration. The only thing under the deck that is original is the decorative castings for the ends of the original floor beams, which were thankfully saved and attached to the replacement floor beams. It is excellent that Youngstown has chosen to not demolish this bridge, however it would have been nice to have instead seen a rehabilitation project that did not alter so much of this bridge. This bridge is completely unique and irreplaceable such that any aspect of the original bridge and design that is removed or altered is lost forever. Also, the pier at the center of the bridge makes the bridge look wrong and fake when viewed from beside or below.
Completed on January 1, 1885
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October 23rd, 2019