The MacArthur Bridge spans a channel of the Detroit River in Detroit, Michigan.

The bridge, which features 19 total arches across 2,193 feet (668 m), provides main access between the city's mainland and Belle Isle.

Completed in 1923 for $2.635 million (equivalent to $36.7 million in 2023[1]), it replaced an iron bridge with wooden decking that accidentally caught fire and was destroyed in 1915.

[3] In 1913, William Edmund Scripps (of the Scripps publishing family), flew a Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company flying boat underneath the original Belle Isle Bridge.

[4] Two sets of streetcar tracks were built into the east side of the bridge but a streetcar route was never implemented.