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B-34
Lombard Street Bridge, (Bollman Truss, Bollman Water-main
Truss, Bollman Water Pipe Truss)
Architectural Survey File
This is the architectural survey file for this MIHP record. The survey file is organized reverse-
chronological (that is, with the latest material on top). It contains all MIHP inventory forms, National
Register nomination forms, determinations of eligibility (DOE) forms, and accompanying documentation
such as photographs and maps.
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versions of forms and architectural reports, photographs, maps, and drawings. Researchers who need a
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Last Updated: 03-10-2011
form No 10·300 (Rev. 10-74)
. . . UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
NATIONAL REGISTER OF IIlSTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM
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0 NAME HISTORIC
Bollman Truss. Bollman Water-main Truss. Bollman Water Pipe Truss ANO/OR COMMON
Lombard Street Bridge (Pref erred}
E)LOCATION STREET & NUMBER
Dickevville Over Gwynns Falls leading from Wetheredsville to_NoTFoAPueuCAT10N CITY. TOWN
Baltimore _ VICINITY OF
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
6 COUNTY CODE STATE
Mar¥Jand CODE
24 Baltimore Citv 510
IE'lJCLASSIFICATION
CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS PRESENT USE _DISTRICT .X-PUBLIC _OCCUPIED -AGRICULTURE _ MUSEUM
_BUILDINGIS) _PRIVATE -UNOCCUPIED X.COMMERCIAL' _PARK
..XSTRUCTURE _BOTH .X-WORK IN PROGRESS _EDUCATIONAL -PRIVATE RESIDENCE
_SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE _ENTERTAINMENT _RELIGIOUS
_OBJECT _IN PROCESS ~YES: RESTRICTED _x-GOVERNMENT :..:.sclENTIFIC
_BEING CONSIDERED _YES: UNRESTRICTED )f-INDUSTRIAL X. TRANSPORTATION
_ NO _MILITARY _OTHER:
fmOWNER OF PROPERTY NAME
State of .Maryland, .Maryland H.istorical Trust STREET & NUMBER
21 Sta.te Cil;'cle CITY. TOWN
}\nna,polis - VICINITY Of
fm)LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE. REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC. Balti.n)o~e City Courthouse STREET & NUMBER
St. Paul and Fayette Streets CITY. TOWN
Ba.ltimore
l!IREPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE
DATE
STATE
Maryland
STATE
Maryland
_FEDERAL -STATE _COUNTY __LOCAL
DEPOSITORY FOR
SURVEY RECORDS
CITY.TOWN STATE
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D DESCRIPTION [3- 3 4 CONDITION CHECK ONE CHECK ONE
..,...ORIGINAL SITE X-EXCELLENT
_GOOD
_FAIR
_,DETERIORATED
_ RUINS
_UNEXPOSED
z_UNALTERED
-ALTERED ~MOVED DATE 7/74 ;1975
DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
The Lombard Street Bridge, which formerly carried Lombard Street oyer the Jones Falls stream in Baltimore City, is located over Gwynns Falls between Dickey Mill to the west and Wetheredsville Road on the east.
The Lombard Street Bridge is an 88 foot cast-iron span designed in 1877 by the engineer Wendel Bollman (1814-1884). The bridge consists of three lines of trusses, two outer trusses of composite cast and wrought iron of diagonal Pratt-type . The center composite bowstring truss has a Pratt-system web. Both chords are cast-iron water mains bifurcated at each end bearing at which point there is a cast-iron p~st and wrought-iron tie.
The Lombard Street Bridge was moved because it could no longer handle the heavy volume of traffic on Lombard Street, one of the principal east-west streets in Baltimore. Moving the bridge was the only way to save the structu~e from total demolition. Because of the unique character of this particular bridge, the City of Baltimore, the State of Maryland, the owners of the Dickey Mill, the Smithsonian Institution, the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation, and the Dickeyville citizens have joined forces to secure its future.
The new site of the Lombard Street Bridge consists ot a 19th centu~y industrial complex constructed on a level, open space bounded on the west by a steep grade, on the east by the Gwynns Falls, and beyond the stream by Wetheredsville Road. The Mill is.not ~isible ~o.th residential section of Dickeyville, therefore the bridge is not visibl~ to the residents of Dickeyville . The Mill area: has , since the 18th century , been industrial . . .
Since hurricane Agnes no access ·has existed to the Mill . Without access to the Mill any propsed adaptive use of the
structure cannot be economically viable. The Mill is the key factor in the historic justification for. the existence of Dickeyville.
The erection of the Lombard Street Bridge over Gwynns Falls at the Dickey Mill solves two preservati~n problem~ by provid~ng a vi~ble adaptive use for two importan~ historic properties . Adaptive use is essential to the viability of preservation: as a whole.
Robert Vogel, Chairman, Department of Science ~nd Te~hnology~ . The National Museum of History and Technology, The Smithsonian Institution . agreed to be a consultant .on the reerection.
I] MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES
Vogel, Robert M., "The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman," Paper 36, United States National Museum Bulletin 240.: Contrj.bu·'f:i.on·s ·:fram the .Museum of History and Tecli.Iiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, .D. C. 1964.
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LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES
STATE CODE COUNTY CODE
STATE CODE COUNTY CODE
NAME / TITLE
Nancy Miller. Historian ORGANIZATION DATE
Maryland Historical Trust December 1974 STREET & NUMBER TELEPHOlllE
21 State Circle, The Shaw House 301-267-1438 CITY OR TOWN STATE
Annaoolis, Maryland
IESTATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS:
NATIONALX-- STATE __ LOCAL __
As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665). I
hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the
criteria and pro~edures set forth by the National Park Service.
STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE
TITLE Acting State Historic Preservation Officer DATE Jul 3 1975 f.OR NPS\J~E ONLV :f.>;;y:'._,:1~··'::·: .. , .. ~:>>·,,:, . · · ->, -.·-, .,,: ... " . .. _:,,.. · '· ..... ·.·,:· .... ' .. , ··" · y,. ;·-r -~ . i .4·. • . · · ).'
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PERIOD AREAS Of SIGNIFICANCE·· CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW
_ PREHISTORIC
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_ARCHEOLUliY· PREHISTORIC _COMMUNITY PLANNING
_ARCHEOLOGY · HISlORIC _CONSERVA llON
_AGRICULTURE -ECONOMICS
_ARCHITECTURE _ EDUCATION
_ART .X.ENGINEERING
_COMMERCE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT
_COMMUNICATIONS _INOUSlRY
_INVENTION
_LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _RELIGION
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SPECIFIC OATES f67 7 BUILDER/ ARCHITECT
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
Robert M. Vogel of the Smithsonian Institution and of the Society for I ndustrial Archaeology declares the Lombard Street Bridge as the only bridge of its kind in existence. It is a unique ,· bi- · furcated water-main form which is an integral part in the support system for the bridge. Other water-main bridges are ·constructed through the use of the arch rather than the truss .
Wendel Bollman, a self-taught engineer, invented the Bollman trus~ (18521 which became one of .the most outstanding advances in nineteenthcentury bridge design . Bollman designed many bridges for the BaltimorE and Ohio Railroad and for various other firms from Chile to Iowa, including Maryland. He built twelve bridges in Ba ltimore, including the Lombard Street Bridge which continued to carry city street traffic over the Jones Falls stream and water through the original d esign system after almost a century of use .
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Form 10-3000 (July 1969)
(Number a ll en trlea)
UNI STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM
(Continuation Sheet) #1
Lombard Stre et Bridge
T ATE
Mary land COUNTY
Baltimore City FOR NPS USE ONLY
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EN T RY NUMBER DATE
9 . MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES , continued
Vogel , Robert M., "The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman ," Paper 36 , United States National Museum Bulleti n 240 : Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology , Smithsonian Institution , Washi ngton , D. C. , 1964 .
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Form No 10·301a l'?ev. 10.1 ·.1
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT Of- THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM
FOR NPS USE ONLY
RECEIVED
DATE ENTERED
SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH
·NAME HISTORIC
Bollman Truss, Bollman Water-main Truss, Bollman Water Pipe Truss ANO/ OR COMMON
Lombard Street Bridge (Preferred)
LOCATION CITY. TOWN Dickeyville _ VICINITY OF
PHOTO REFERENCE
COUNTY
Baltimore City STATE
Md.
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PHOTO CREDIT Nancy Miller DA TE Of PHOTO March 1974
NEGATIVE FILED AT Maryland Historical Trust
IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW DIRECTION. ElC IF OISlRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PHOTO NO.
Lorobard Street Bridge " in storage " on Falls Road 2
Form No I0-301 a l '?ev. 10.7 ·, 1
UNI TED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTER IOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM
FOR NPS USE QNLY
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ATE ENTERED
SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH
NAME
~~i~fuan Truss, Bollman Water-main Truss , Bollman Water Pipe Truss ANO/ OR C0~.{1/ION Lombara Street Bridge (Preferred
Et LOCATION CITY. TOWN • • l l Dickeyvi e
_ VICINITY OF
IU PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREDIT William Grovermann
NE.GATIVEFILEDAT Maryland Historical Trust
IDENTIFI CA TI ON OE SCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. If DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET
New site for the bridge
COU NTY Baltimore City
STATE
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Form 10-301 (Julio 1961)
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MA AL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLA PROPERTY MAP FORM
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Lombard Street Bridge 2. LOCATION ST A TE C OUNTY
Mar land Bal t i rnore City S T R E IET A N O N U !ol8ER
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