Cowen Park Bridge

47°40′24″N 122°18′43″W / 47.67332°N 122.31194°W / 47.67332; -122.31194Heritage statusNational Register of Historic Places, Seattle city landmarkCharacteristicsDesignDeck ArchMaterialConcreteTotal length358 ft (109 m)HistoryEngineering design byClark EldridgeOpened1936Location

Cowen Park Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Seattle Landmark
Location	Seattle, Washington
Built	1936
Architect	Clark H. Eldridge and A.J. Mahoney
Architectural style	Art Deco
MPS	Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
NRHP reference No.	82004233
Added to NRHP	July 26, 1982

The Cowen Park Bridge is a reinforced concrete arch bridge in Seattle, Washington. The bridge has a length of 358 feet (109 m) and carries 15th Avenue NE across a ravine in the Cowen Park. The bridges acts as a dividing line in the Ravenna-Cowen Park contiguous area, with the smaller area west of the bridge deemed Cowen Park and the larger area east of the bridge considered Ravenna Park. The bridge, which spans from NE 62nd Street to Cowen Place NE, connects the northern Roosevelt/Ravenna neighborhood with the beginning of the University District. The Cowen Park Bridge is one of two bridges that span the Ravenna Park ravine (the other being the 20th Avenue NE Bridge built in 1913) but is the only one open to vehicular traffic.

The bridge was built in 1936 under the authority of the Works Progress Administration. The bridge engineer was Clark Eldridge.^[1] The structure is listed in the National Register of Historic Places,^[2] and it is a designated city landmark.^[3] The bridge has been praised for the 12 ft (3.7 m) Art Deco light standards along its sides.^[4]

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  A street-level view of 15th Avenue NE as it continues along the Cowen Park Bridge.
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  A close-up of one of the Art Deco light standards on the Cowen Park Bridge.

References

Bridges

Road

Alaskan Way Viaduct Ballard Bridge Cowen Park Bridge East Channel Bridge Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (1963) Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (2016) First Avenue South Bridge Fremont Bridge George Washington Memorial Bridge (Aurora Bridge) Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge Jose Rizal Bridge Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge Magnolia Bridge Montlake Bridge North Queen Anne Drive Bridge Schmitz Park Bridge Ship Canal Bridge South Park Bridge Spokane Street Bridge 20th Avenue NE Bridge University Bridge West Seattle Bridge West Spokane Street Bridge

Rail

Salmon Bay Bridge Wilburton Trestle

Tunnels

Road	State Route 99 Tunnel Aubrey Davis Park (Mercer Island Lid) Battery Street Tunnel Convention Center-Freeway Park Lid Mount Baker Tunnel
Rail	Beacon Hill Tunnel Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel Great Northern Tunnel Northgate Link tunnel University Link tunnel
Utility	Brightwater sewage tunnel