The Broadway Ave Bridge is about as plain and simple as a bridge structure can be. It appears that no money was spent on any type of ornamentation. Normally, such a modern freeway style bridge would be rather bland. But in this case, the thin lines of the bridge combined with the broad river channel gives the bridge an appearance of elegant simplicity.
When the original 1887 bridge was torn down, one of the through-truss sections was saved, floated down-river, and installed as the traffic bridge from Main Street to Nicollet Island. It is now called the Merriam Street Bridge.
