1891 bridge The first Fifth Street Viaduct, also called the
Northside Viaduct, was an iron structure completed in February 1891 for
streetcars, which had been introduced in Richmond in 1887. Masonry remnants of the north abutment of this original bridge are still visible.
1933 bridge The second Fifth Street Viaduct was a reinforced concrete bridge built in 1933 to allow for automobile, streetcar, and pedestrian travel between the neighborhoods of Highland Park and Jackson Ward. The design was drafted by Alfredo C. Janni and the bridge was built by the Richmond Bridge Corporation. The renaming of the bridge was among several such renamings cited as the impetus for a failed 2004 Virginia Assembly bill to restrict such actions in the Commonwealth. ==See also==