MacArthur Bridge (Detroit)

MacArthur Bridge

Carries	5 lanes of East Grand Blvd.
Crosses	Detroit River
Locale	Detroit, Michigan and Belle Isle, Michigan
Official name	Douglas MacArthur Bridge
Other name(s)	Belle Isle Bridge
Characteristics
Design	Arch bridge
Total length	2,193 feet (668 m)
Width	85 feet (26 m)
Clearance below	30 feet (9 m)
History
Opened	September 1, 1923

The MacArthur Bridge is a bridge that spans the Detroit River between Detroit, Michigan and Belle Isle. The bridge, which features nineteen total arches across 2,193 feet (668 m), provides main access to Belle Isle. Completed in 1923 for $2,635,000 USD, it replaced a mostly wooden bridge that accidentally caught fire and was destroyed in 1915. The bridge, once known as the Belle Isle Bridge, was later renamed the Douglas MacArthur Bridge after General Douglas MacArthur in 1942. It was restored in 1986 at a cost of $11.5 million.^[1]

In 1913, William Edmund Scripps (of the Scripps publishing family), flew a Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company flying boat underneath the original Belle Isle Bridge.^[2]

Photo gallery

Entering Belle Isle from MacArthur Bridge
View of bridge from Belle Isle.

References

External links

Media related to MacArthur Bridge (Detroit) at Wikimedia Commons

Crossings of the Detroit River

Upstream
Lake Saint Clair

MacArthur Bridge

Downstream
Detroit-Windsor Tunnel

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Coordinates: 42°20′33.0″N 82°59′54.5″W / 42.342500°N 82.998472°W / 42.342500; -82.998472

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