Thank you to JuLee Rudolf for pointing out the error. (Prior to, PCAD had ascribed the design to Otto Elwell. Ober (1871-1931), of the Seattle firm of Jacobs and Ober. The main engineering designer for the bridge was Ralph H. This was one of many bicentennial observations of Washington's birth around the US.
President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) sent an electronic signal to have large flags unfurled on the bridge before a 21-gun salute was set off and sirens wailed. Governor Roland Hartley (1864-1952) and emissaries of the Mexican and Canadian governments cut a ceremonial log to open the structure. In the end, the State Highway Department and the "good roads" lobby (a very potent lobbying force in the 1910s-1920s) prevailed and the George Washington Memorial Bridge was erected through the Woodland Park route.Ī great celebration accompanied the bridge's opening in 1932. Many Seattleites wanted to preserve the park's integrity and resented how the roadway would slice the civic amenity in two. Controversy developed before the bridge's construction due to its route through Woodland Park. Construction of the bridge's piers began in 1929 steel work on the bridge began in 1931, concluding on Washington's Birthday.
This bridge was built by the United States Steel Products Corporation. The route became known as Washington State Highway 99, when the road was reclassed after the opening of US Highway 5.
It opened on the bicentennial anniversary of George Washington's birth. This bridge spanned the Lake Washington Ship Canal and formed a key element of US Highway 99, that traversed the Pacific Coast from Mexico through the United States to Canada. Aurora Avenue North over the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
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