Shoreham Hill Bridge

The Shoreham Hill Bridge is a bridge carrying the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway across Rock Creek in Washington, DC.

[1] As part of the construction of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway in the 1930s, the original bridge was purposely built in a utilitarian style, using salvaged steel trusses from the Georgetown Aqueduct Bridge.

According to Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission executive officer Ulysses S. Grant III, the bridge's appearance would encourage the public to demand a more aesthetically pleasing and expensive bridge.

[1] The steel-girder bridge was constructed in 1929,[2] part of the first stretch of the parkway opened.

[1] It was indeed soon considered to not fit in with the desired appearance of the park, as well as being a traffic hazard,[2] and attracted the disapproval of the United States Commission of Fine Arts, which was responsible for reviewing architecture in the capital.