File:Yale Street Bridge over White Oak Bayou -- Houston, Texas.jpg
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Yale Street Bridge over White Oak Bayou -- Houston, Texas
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English: Built in 1931, Yale Street Bridge spans White Oak bayou in Houston, Harris County, Texas, and is one of the few remaining examples of bayou crossings constructed during the city's street improvement program of the 1930s. This concrete girder bridge with a neoclassical urn balustrade railing is significant as a good example of City-Beautiful (a movement spawned by the 1893 Worlds Fair) design on an engineered structure in Houston and the state of Texas, and is in the National Register of Historic Places in the area of engineering. Still in use as a vehicular bridge, the property retains a high degree of integrity.
City bridge engineer James Gordon (J. G.) McKenzie continued to design bridges in a similar aesthetic during this time period. Three of his bridges, the Almeda Road and Telephone Road bridges over Bray's Bayou, and the Yale Street Bridge over White Oak Bayou were all built the same year, using a simple concrete girder structure with an urn style balustrade. In these bridges, McKenzie streamlined the form and ornamentation, reflecting more general trends in bridge design, and together they illustrate McKenzie's simplified version of City-Beautiful design
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