CAPPELEN MEMORIAL BRIDGE, across the Mississippi River at Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, completed in the fall of 1923 at a cost of nearly one million dollars. The center span of four hundred feet is the longest concrete span in the world. Designed and built by the Minneapolis City Engineering Department.
The F.W. Cappelen Memorial Bridge’s is 1054.7 feet long, with a 400 foot central span. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
