The Franklin Avenue or F.W. Cappelen Memorial Bridge was designed by and named for Frederick William Cappelen. The bridge was completed in 1923. Cappelen died during the construction of the bridge, and as a memorial to his life and career, the bridge still bears his name. The reinforced-concrete open-spandrel arched bridge took a couple years to build. The bridge’s overall length is over 1050 feet, with a central span of 400 feet. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 along with several other area bridges as part of a multiple property submission. In the late 1990s, there was an easy way to climb the arches under the bridge and walk along a path that spanned the entire way across the river.
