Photo, Print, Drawing Merritt Parkway, Beginning in Greenwich & running 38 miles to Stratford, Greenwich, Fairfield County, CT Drawings from Survey HAER CT-63

Title

• Merritt Parkway, Beginning in Greenwich & running 38 miles to Stratford, Greenwich, Fairfield County, CT

Names

• Historic American Engineering Record, creator
• Connecticut Highway Department
• Dunkelberger, George L.
• Macdonald, John A.
• Bennett, Charles J.
• U.S. Public Works Administration (PWA)
• Fairfield County Planning Association
• Regional Plan Association of New York
• New England Regional Planning Commission
• Kitchel, Helen
• Kemp, LeRoy G.
• Creamer, Warren
• Hurley, Robert A.
• Cox, William J.
• Smith, John
• Starr, Daniel H. B.
• Sumner, Leslie G.
• Willis, John F.
• Bushell, Arthur W.
• Wood, A. Earl
• Chase, W. Thayer
• Smith, Corinne, engineer
• Salame, Jacqueline A., field team project manager
• DeLony, Eric N., project manager
• Leach, Sara Amy, project manager
• Larned, George L., sponsor
• Leach, Sara Amy, transmitter
• Lowe, Jet, photographer
• Esperdy, Gabrielle, historian
• Thibodeau, Todd, historian
• McAllister-Hewlings, Joanne, delineator
• Clark, Mary Elizabeth, delineator
• Perkins, B. Devon, delineator

Created / Published

• Documentation compiled after 1968

Headings

• -  parkways
• -  road & roadside elements
• -  bridges
• -  transportation
• -  transportation engineering
• -  civil engineering
• -  landscape architects
• -  traffic engineering
• -  Connecticut--Fairfield County--Greenwich

Latitude / Longitude

• 41.089483,-73.625423

Notes

• -  Significance: The Merritt Parkway was the first divided-lane, limited-access highway in Connecticut. As one of the first roads to combine the aesthetics of scenic and recreational parkways with the efficiency of high-speed motorways, the Merritt Parkway represents a significant development in the evolution of American highway design. The ornamentation of the Merritt's bridges introduced commercial architectural styles such as Art Deco and Art Moderne into a new context. By improving access to New York City, the Merritt Parkway played a crucial role in the rapid commercial and residential development of Fairfield County in the 1930s and 1940s.
• -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-11
• -  Survey number: HAER CT-63
• -  Building/structure dates: 1934- 1940 Initial Construction
• -  National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 91000410

Medium

• Photo(s): 119
• Measured Drawing(s): 21
• Data Page(s): 160
• Photo Caption Page(s): 8

Call Number/Physical Location

• HAER CONN,1-GREWI,2-

Source Collection

• Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

Repository

• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Control Number

• ct0484

Rights Advisory

• No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

Online Format

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• pdf