Andy Warhol Bridge, also known as the Seventh Street Bridge, spans the Allegheny River in Downtown Pittsburgh. It is the only bridge in the United States named for a visual artist. It was opened as the Seventh Street Bridge at a cost of $1.5 million[4] on June 17, 1926, in a ceremony attended by 2,000 people.[5]

History and architectural features

Now named for the artist Andy Warhol, a Pittsburgh native, this structure is one of three parallel bridges called The Three Sisters, the others being the Roberto Clemente Bridge and the Rachel Carson Bridge. The Three Sisters are self-anchored suspension bridges and are historically significant because they are the only trio of nearly identical bridges — as well as the first self-anchored suspension spans — built in the United States.

The bridge was renamed for Warhol on March 18, 2005, as part of the tenth-anniversary celebration for the Andy Warhol Museum. The museum is nearby at 117 Sandusky Street, a street which leads to the bridge from the north side of the river on Pittsburgh's North Shore.

On August 11, 2013, the Andy Warhol Bridge was covered with 580 knitted and crocheted panels in a yarn bombing project known as Knit the Bridge that lasted for four weeks.[6]

This is the third bridge on the site, the first having been demolished in early 1884. Construction of its replacement began in 1884,[7] opening to traffic in 1887.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ Martin Aurand (July 1985). National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennsylvania MPS Seventh Street Bridge. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved December 8, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)
  3. ↑ Historic Landmark Plaques 1968-2009 (PDF). Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. 2010. Retrieved January 4, 2024.
  4. ↑ "New Seventh St. Bridge to Be Dedicated Tomorrow", The Pittsburgh Press, June 16, 1926, p.1
  5. ↑ "Thousands Witness Seventh St. Bridge Opening", The Pittsburgh Press, June 17, 1926, p.1
  6. ↑ Hamilton, Anita (August 13, 2013). "Pittsburgh Bridge Gets a 'Yarn Bomb' Makeover". Time.
  7. ↑ "A novel and profitable plan of construction for the new seventh street bridge". Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette. November 23, 1883. p. 2. Retrieved October 5, 2018 – via newspapers.com. (make the piers) longer than they are now which is sixty-six feet
  8. ↑ "Local Laconics". Altoona Times. January 22, 1887. p. 4. Retrieved October 5, 2018 – via newspapers.com. Levi H. Kantner, the 16-year-old son of Mr. D. T. Kantner, of the Altoona Gas Works, had the pleasure of being the first bicycler to cross the new Seventh street bridge on a wheel. Levi Kantner won't be beat in anything he undertakes that is, he won't if he can help it.

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