The Veterans Memorial Bridge in

Rochester, New York Rochester () is a City (New York), city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, the county seat, seat of Monroe County, New York, Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, ...

, carries New York State Route 104 (less well known as the Keeler Street Expressway) across the

Genesee River The Genesee River is a tributary of Lake Ontario flowing northward through the Twin Tiers of Pennsylvania and New York in the United States. The river provided the original power for the Rochester area's 19th century mills and still provides h ...

. The bridge is an architecturally significant concrete arch faced with white granite. Conceived in 1928 and finished in 1931, the span is the longest bridge in Rochester at . It is in height and wide. The bridge was originally connected to a

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but was changed to an interchange in the 1960s.aerial view of interchange at Veterans Memorial Bridge in Rochester
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/ref> Additional links have been included below for background information for future expansion of this article. File:VeteransMemorialBridgeLookingEast.JPG, Route 104 as it crosses the bridge File:VeteransMemorialBridgePlaque.JPG, Plaque located along Route 104 on the west side of the bridge File:VeteransMemorialBridgeEastSidePlaque.JPG, Plaque located along Route 104 on the east side of the bridge adjacent to

Maplewood Park Maplewood Park, also known as Seneca Park West, is a landscaped public park in Rochester, New York, situated between Lake Avenue and the Genesee River. The park features many trails along the river gorge and the river bank below, scenic views o ...

File:VeteransMemorialBridgeNorthSideMonumentBench.JPG, Monument along Route 104 on the east side of the bridge in Seneca Park File:VeteransMemorialBridgeSouthSideMonumentBench.JPG, Monument along Route 104 on the east side of the bridge adjacent to Seneca Towers

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State Bridge Wins Statewide Award For Partnering Practices (Monroe County) 020103

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070716230407/http://www.landmarksociety.org/section.html?id=1&uid=25&pageId=90 part of Seneca Park one of three major parks in Rochester designed by

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, is located in the shadow of the bridge
a late '90s rehab utilized an innovative safety deck for the workers on the bridgeseveral popular walking trails intersect near the bridge.
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