Lorain - Carnegie Bridge Pylons, (sculpture).

Lorain - Carnegie Bridge Pylons, (sculpture).

Hering, Henry, 1874-1949, sculptor.

Walker, Frank, architect.

Walker & Weeks, architectural firm.

Lorain - Carnegie Bridge Pylons, (sculpture).

Progress in Transportation, (sculpture).

1932. Dedicated Nov. 1932.

Berea sandstone.

4 pylons. Each: approx. 43 x 14 x 26 ft.

The four colossal pylons standing on the last piers at the ends of the bridge are carved with Art Deco figures symbolizing the development of road transportation. Each pylon features two semi-nude male figures, back to back, which hold in their hands a symbol of transportation: a hay wagon, a covered wagon, a stage coach, an automobile, a dump truck, a concrete mixer, and two other trucks. The sides of the pylons are carved to represent wings.

Figure -- Full length

Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Transportation

Allegory -- Other -- Progress

Architecture -- Vehicle -- Automobile

Architecture -- Vehicle -- Wagon

Architecture -- Vehicle -- Truck

Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Cleveland

Administered by Cuyahoga County, Engineering, 1200 Ontario, Cleveland, Ohio 44114

Located Hope Memorial Bridge, Cleveland, Ohio

Formerly located Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, Cleveland, Ohio

The bridge was originally known as the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, but the bridge has since been renamed the Hope Memorial Bridge. Architect Frank Walker, of Walker & Weeks, designed the pylon figures and Henry Hering sculpted them. In 1976 the bridge was nominated for the National Register of Historic Places. IAS files contain an excerpt from the 1979 "Historic American Engineering Record" and an excerpt from Carol Poh Miller and Robert Wheller's "Cleveland: A Concise History, 1796-1990," Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990, pg. 32 which includes a photograph of the stone carvers posed on one of the pylons. The image in the Campen publication is of just one of the pylon figures. For further reading see: Wilbur J. Watson, "A Decade of Bridges," Cleveland, OH: J. H. Jansen, 1937, pg. 11-16 and Sara Ruth Watson and John R. Wolfs' "Bridges of Metropolitan Cleveland Past and Present," American Society of Civil Engineering, 1981, pg. 23-28.

Campen, Richard N., "Outdoor Sculpture in Ohio," Chagrin Falls, Ohio: West Summit Press, 1980, pg. 42.

Lybarger, Helen Baldwin, "A Survey of Public Monuments in Cleveland," Cleveland, OH: Early Settlers Assoc. of Cleveland & the Western Reserve, 1979. (booklet)

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Ohio, Cleveland survey, 1993.

Campen, Richard N., "Outdoor Sculpture in Ohio," Chagrin Falls, Ohio: West Summit Press, 1980, pg. 42.

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