The Second Street Bridge

Built in 1886, this simply ornamented wrought-iron bridge replaced an earlier wooden span that had begun to fall into disrepair. Designed by the King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, Ohio, the double-intersection Pratt truss bridge was completed at a cost of $7,532.25. Eighteen feet wide and spanning 225 feet of the Kalamazoo River, it is one of the largest extant bridges designed by the firm. After city officials and local citizens battled to save it from demolition, it was restored in 1983 at a cost of $552,000 and had been listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Allegan, Michigan · United States