The
Don Gaspar Bridge in
Santa Fe River
Park, Don Gaspar Avenue connecting Alemeda and East de Vargas
Streets, next to the
Supreme Court building. Built
in 1934 by the WPA and/or CCC. "The Don Gaspar Bridge was the first
rigid-frame bridge erected in New Mexico and the first utilitarian structure
designed in the Pueblo Revival style. It is the standard for subsequent
spans over the Santa Fe River."[2]
References
- Don Gaspar Bridge, National Register #02001163,
2002. This listing should be available HERE, but
"Http/1.1 Service Unavailable". It would detail the New Deal involvement in
the project.
- Don Gaspar
Bridge, noehill.com, accessed 15 July 2019.
- Don
Gaspar Bridge, Historic Cultural Properties Inventory (HCPI) Base Form
(FORM 1), Historic Preservation Division, New Mexico Department of
Cultural Affairs, accessed 15 July 2019: "The Don Gaspar Bridge,
historically known as El Puente de Los Conquistadores, is located on Don
Gaspar Avenue over the Santa Fe River south of the Plaza in Santa Fe. The
58'-long bridge is composed of a single reinforced concrete rigid-frame
span. It gracefully spans the river by a 50'-long elliptical arch. Itcarries
two lanes of traffic over a 41'-6"-wide concrete roadway. Seven-foot wide
sidewalks are provided on both sides of the structure. The handrail, or
'parapet', is composed of a solid concrete wall continuing above the arch
and treated with a pebbled-dash finish. The walls terminate with heavy
concrete posts rounded at the corners to reflect the blunted parapet ends of
the Spanish-Pueblo Revival style. It rests on abutmentswith skewed wingwalls
terminating the bridge at its northeast and southeast ends; the northwest
corner has a straight wingwall, while the southwest corner joins directly
with a concrete retaining wall. Constructed in 1934, under a New Deal
funding program, the Don Gaspar Bridge has spanned the Santa Fe River
for 80 years."