A much smaller iron
truss bridge was built at the bottom of the valley in 1888, following the decision to extend
Massachusetts Avenue beyond
Florida Avenue. In 1901, this bridge was replaced with a land fill, with Rock Creek channeled through a large
culvert. This in turn became inconvenient when
Rock Creek Parkway was built in the 1930s. The construction of the bridge also allowed the level of
Massachusetts Avenue to be raised significantly compared with the earlier bridge and land fill. The bridge was named after
Charles Carroll Glover, who had played a decisive role in shaping this area of
Northwest Washington and who died in 1936. On November 20, 1946, Stephen Norman, grandson of
Theodor Herzl, jumped off the bridge to his death three weeks after learning that his whole family had been murdered in
the Holocaust. ==See also==