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The Wabasha Street Bridge is a segmental bridge that spans the Mississippi River in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It was named Wabasha Street Freedom Bridge in 2002, to commemorate the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks. [1] It actually consists of two separate bridges, one for northbound and one for southbound traffic.
Saint Paul was incorporated as a city in 1854, and in 1858, Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd state of the union with Saint Paul becoming the capital. Natural geography played a role in the settlement and development of Saint Paul as a trade and transportation center. The Mississippi River valley in the area surrounding the city is defined by ...
Here it passes under a succession of bridges, the Wabasha Street Bridge, St. Paul Union Pacific Vertical-lift Rail Bridge, the Robert Street Bridge, and east of the city center, the Lafayette Bridge. In downtown, next to the Saint Paul Union Depot, the road's name changes from Shepard Road to Warner Road. As Warner Road heads east, it is ...
In June 1998, the St. Paul City Council approved the renaming from Osborn Plaza and Capital Centre Plaza to Ecolab Plaza in recognition of the company's sizable presence along Wabasha Street and ...
The bridge carries two lanes of street traffic over the river and is the highest bridge in St. Paul, with a deck height of 160 ft (49 m) and a clearance below of 149 ft (45 m). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The current bridge replaced a 2,770-foot-long (840 m) iron Warren deck truss bridge constructed in 1889.
ZIP code. 55101. Area code. 651. Downtown Saint Paul is the central business district of Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Its boundaries are the Mississippi River to the south, University Avenue to the north, US 52 to the east, and Kellogg Boulevard to the west. It is bounded by the Dayton's Bluff, Summit-University, West Seventh, Frogtown ...
Raspberry Island is located in the Mississippi River under the Wabasha Street Bridge. It has a total area of 2 acres (8,094 m 2 ) [2] and sits at an elevation of 696 feet (212 m) above sea level. [1]
The Wabasha Street Caves is an event hall built into the sandstone caves located on the south shore of the Mississippi River in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. [1] The caves have been home to mobsters, speakeasies, and for the past 30 years have hosted Swing Night every Thursday night with professional live Big Bands and vocalists, playing music of the old Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Count ...