One of several large concrete bridges designed by a Cleveland engineer, it has been named a historic site.

Like today, Broadway was an important thoroughfare, with the old courthouse occupying a place on the public square, and a dense commercial district lining both sides of the street for several blocks to the south of the square.

[2]: 515  The current courthouse was constructed in 1874,[2]: 516  and Broadway was paved with brick in 1900 as numerous commercial buildings continued to rise along its sides.

[2]: 517  The location of the present bridge is close to the Treaty of Greenville signing grounds; construction by the bridge in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries revealed burials of officers from the Legion of the United States.

Zesiger, constructed multiple three-hinged arch concrete bridges; one that spanned a creek at Brookside Park in Cleveland was once considered the world's flattest semi-elliptical arch.