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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 เม.ย. 2011
- One of the most recognizable architectural landmarks of Minneapolis is the Stone Arch Bridge. Built by Railroad Baron James J. Hill back in 1883, the Stone Arch Bridge is the only bridge of its kind spanning the Mississippi River. Built of 100,000 tons of granite and limestone, this 2,100 foot long structure, composed of twenty-three gracefully curving arches, helped usher the railroad age into the city of Minneapolis.
In its heyday, forty-eight passenger trains crossed the Stone Arch Bridge each and every day bringing thousands of travelers into and out of the central business district of Minneapolis. But as air travel replaced passenger train travel, the bridge went into decline. By 1980 it had become little more than a fenced off, derelict structure surrounded by crumbling, abandoned flour mills.
In 1994 a partnership of public agencies rehabilitated the bridge for pedestrian use. Today the Stone Arch Bridge is the jewel of the brilliantly redeveloped Minneapolis Riverfront. Thanks primarily to the Minneapolis Park Board, our grandchildren, as well as our grandchildrens' grandchildren, will one day be able to stroll across the Mississippi River on James J. Hill's monument to the railroad age.
Im taking a class at the local technical college based on the history of the twin cities and this video helped out great in my report on The Stone Arch Bridge. Thanks a lot.
Very nice. I rode across it in 2nd grade (1958) , and walked it with grandkids last summer. Good documentary, well done.
Great work.
I used to wave at the train men on the passenger trains in the late 1960's as I fished for smallmouth bass and catfish below. The big Minneapolis train station was still open. That amazing bridge will still be standing a 1000 years from now. Its still a looker too. Great bridge!
What a beautifully produced documentary! I starve for old photos of the twin cities so this was a feast. Nice music. Good, well read script. I loved it!
Quite the guy he was, the bridge just being one of his grand accomplishments
Love this, thank you added to a playlist...
Great video
Comments could and probably will go on to the end what ever the end will be or if there ever will bean end my guess is there will never be an end we have crossed many bridges and burnt some of them let's hope the James J Hill bridge is preserved as long as possible.
Awesome video!
Amazing piece of American history. I wonder if people realize what a treasure this bridge is? Just to walk on it makes you a part of it. And the beauty of it leaves you awestruck.
A very enjoyable presentation. Would love to go visit the area once again sometime.
It was never a derelict structure. It was in use as long as the Great Northern Depot was in operation, even longer.
amazing video, than you
Well, I enjoyed this. Too bad that the limitation of then-current resolution did not make the transition so well. The only change I would have made would have been to tighten up some of the editing where there are long pauses between chunks of dialogue. Otherwise, it's a great production using what history and media was available.
Can you upload a better quality video please? This is great, but I can't make out any details in this video.
is there anything other than gravity holding the blocks together?
The music is very distracting
@chevelle396guy Recommend it to the Prof and I will send him a high-quality DVD. It played twice on Twin Cities Public TV (channels 2 &17), but then fell into the memory hole...
what dreadful music to to accompany such an achievement, and tribute to all those engaged in the completion of such a great achievement.
James J. Hill had a tremendous positive impact on the development of the Twin Cities and far beyond. The Great Northern Railway 🛤 helped build a large swath of the country.
Ragtimes were evolved 20-30 years later after the construction of the bridge. So it does not match the content of the film.
Hill's folly? Try reading some history before embarrassing yourself with such an ignorant statement. Then try using your power of reason and think about why that bridge and it's location were important factors in the Great Northern Railway's dominance of traffic in the twin cities at that time. Lastly, the Stone Arch Bridge may have been unused for awhile after changing traffic patterns and the abandonment of the Great Northern Station (Burlington Northern at the time) rendered it surplus, but to call it derelict is an insult. Two of the arches settled in the 1960's but were repaired and the bridge returned to service hosting lightweight 14,000-ton unit coal trains into the 80's. I know because Fuji Ya was a great place for me to watch those Milwaukee Road trains cross the river on the world-famous Stone Arch Bridge which, by the way, was designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Hill's "folly" cemented Great Northern's hold on rail traffic through the twin cities and made it the centerpiece railroad of the Burlington Northern merger. A quick change in bridge decks and the bridge could easily be carrying trains once more.
Douglas Skaalrud douche
Thanks Douglas I,m in agreement with you the bridge is a work of art. Theirs always somebody out there that just can't help but complain.
It was called Hill's Folly when it was being built because it was believed that the bridge wouldn't stay standing. Many didn't believe that a stone arch bridge with such a large curve would be structurally sound. Obviously those nay sayers were wrong, just as they were about the Eads Bridge in St. Louis or the Brooklyn Bridge.
Only criticism I have is the overuse of Ragtime music. Didn't exist when the bridge was being built so shouldn't be played during the construction narration. It encourages folks to think that this was the music of the era. Yup, I'm on of those types.
At least it was not Hip Hop………..
Most people would not recognize pop music from the 1880’s. Few recordings existed, the music charts were for the sales of sheet music.