The Siuslaw River Bridge is a

bascule bridge A bascule bridge (also referred to as a drawbridge or a lifting bridge) is a moveable bridge with a counterweight that continuously balances a span, or leaf, throughout its upward swing to provide clearance for boat traffic. It may be single- o ...

that spans the

Siuslaw River The Siuslaw River ( ) is a river, about long, that flows to the Pacific Ocean coast of Oregon in the United States. It drains an area of about in the Central Oregon Coast Range southwest of the Willamette Valley and north of the watershed o ...

U.S. Route 101 U.S. Route 101, or U.S. Highway 101 (US 101), is a major north–south highway that traverses the states of California, Oregon, and Washington on the West Coast of the United States. It is part of the United States Numbered Highway Syst ...

Florence, Oregon Florence is a coastal city in Lane County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It lies at the mouth of the Siuslaw River on the Pacific Ocean and about midway between Newport to the north and Coos Bay to the south along U.S. Route 101. As of August ...

. It was designed by Conde McCullough, built by the Mercer-Fraser Company of

Eureka, California Eureka ( ; Wiyot: ; Hupa: ; ) is a city and the county seat of Humboldt County, located on the North Coast of California. The city is located on U.S. Route 101 on the shores of Humboldt Bay, north of San Francisco and south of the Oreg ...

, and funded by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (later renamed the

Public Works Administration The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by United States Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was ...

). It opened in 1936. The bridge's total length is . When open, the double-leaf bascule provides of horizontal clearance for boat traffic. The bascule section is flanked by two reinforced concrete tied arches, identical to those used in the original Alsea Bay Bridge. Four

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-style

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s house mechanical equipment as well as living quarters for the bridge operator. The total cost of the bridge was $527,000 (equivalent to $ million in ). The bridge was added to the

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on August 5, 2005.

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* * * * Bridges completed in 1936 Bascule bridges in the United States Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon Public Works Administration in Oregon U.S. Route 101 National Register of Historic Places in Lane County, Oregon Bridges in Lane County, Oregon Tied arch bridges in the United States Art Deco architecture in Oregon Historic American Engineering Record in Oregon Bridges by Conde McCullough Bridges of the United States Numbered Highway System 1936 establishments in Oregon Drawbridges on the National Register of Historic Places Concrete bridges in the United States {{Oregon-NRHP-stub

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