🌉 Pont de Rennes bridge

The Pont de Rennes Bridge, originally the Platt Street Bridge, is a historic wrought iron pedestrian bridge spanning the Genesee River and Brown's Race in Rochester, New York. Built in 1891 by the Rochester Bridge and Iron Works to a design by engineer Leffert Lefferts Buck, the bridge is an 858-foot-long (262 m) metal 11-panel rivet-connected lattice deck truss bridge standing 114 feet (35 m) above the river. Originally carrying vehicular traffic of Platt Street,, it was closed to automobiles after being deemed structurally unsafe and sat unused for approximately two decades before being converted to a pedestrian bridge in 1982 and renamed for Rochester's sister city of Rennes, France.