Lorraine Carnegie Bridge

The Lorraine-Carnegie Bridge was opened at 1932, making it the second fixed high-rise bridge in Cleveland. It was built in part to ease the traffic of the Detroit Advanced Bridge (another fixed advanced bridge in Detroit), which was opened to traffic on 19 17. The construction of this bridge began at 1930, although the plan to build this bridge can be traced back to 1902, when Cleveland citizens submitted a letter requesting the construction of a high-rise viaduct between Loulan Avenue and Central Avenue. 1927, the city approved the issuance of $8 million in bonds for the construction of the bridge, slightly changing the plan and connecting the East Approach Road with Carnegie instead of the Central Avenue. When completed, the bridge is 93 feet higher than the Hoga River and spans 5,865 feet.

Perhaps the most memorable feature of the Lorraine-Carnegie Bridge is the 43-foot-high "traffic guards" arranged on both sides of the bridge. These four huge double-sided towers, carved from sandstone near Berria, Ohio, represent the technological progress in transportation, and each guardian holds a different means of transportation. Frank Walker designed the bridge tower, and Henry Herring actually carved it with the help of some local shipbuilders.

In the 1970s, Albert Porter, an engineer in Cuhoga County, wanted to demolish the bridge tower in order to add lanes to the bridge. He did not succeed. Therefore, when the bridge was reopened on 1983 after nearly three years of maintenance, the guardians of traffic were still there. In memory of bob hope, a British immigrant who came to Cleveland in 1908, and his family, the bridge was renamed Hope Memorial Bridge at this time. Bob's father, willaim henley Hope, was a stonemason who devoted himself to building guardians in 1930s.