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On August 5, 1986, Mayor Win Moses Jr. announced that the City of Fort Wayne intended to accept the Allen County offer to donate the Historic Wells Street Bridge to the city.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition, the county was also giving the $20,000 it had earmarked to demolish the structure to the city for its’ restoration of the bridge.\u00c2\u00a0 The Foellinger Foundation and Headwaters State Park Alliance each set aside $15,000 to help restore the bridge.\u00c2\u00a0 (At this point in the Headwaters Park development, it was thought this area would have been part of the park, hence the donation.)\u00c2\u00a0 The city was considering placing tables and lights on the bridge.\u00c2\u00a0 The city was also accepting proposals for possible uses of the bridge once the restoration was completed.\u00c2\u00a0 (Information gleaned from an article in the August 7, 1986 issue of the News-Sentinel from staff reports.)<\/p>\n

In a News-Sentinel\u00c2\u00a0article on August 11, 1986, it was revealed that Bud Hall, owner of the local Hall’s Restaurant chain and Guesthouse Motel, had paid an engineer $600 to determine whether building a hotel on the bridge was feasible.<\/p>\n

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Picture a $500,000 downtown hotel featuring a dozen suites, glass walls and a patio with an angler’s-eye view of the St. Mary’s River.<\/p>\n

Picture that structure built on the deck of the Wells Street Bridge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The project wasn’t feasible, but Hall was\u00c2\u00a0quoted as saying:<\/p>\n

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I thought it’d be kind of wild and crazy . . . I think it would have been unique, I think I could have filled it and I think I could have turned a buck on it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Patrons would have paid $55 per night to stay in\u00c2\u00a0one of the suites which would have consisted of a kitchen, living room and bathroom.\u00c2\u00a0 Parking areas would have been on both ends of the bridge and the\u00c2\u00a0west side\u00c2\u00a0would have become a fenced-in patio\u00c2\u00a0area.<\/p>\n

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I just hated to see the\u00c2\u00a0bridge being torn down,”\u00c2\u00a0Hall recalled.\u00c2\u00a0 “I didn’t want to adulterate the outside.\u00c2\u00a0 I wanted to use the bridge as the superstructure and glass it in.\u00c2\u00a0 When you looked at the bridge, it would look like it always did.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I figured on 80 to 90 percent occupancy.\u00c2\u00a0 I went ahead and hired a bridge engineer to do a study on it,” Hall stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The report however revealed some troubling conclusions.\u00c2\u00a0 It was impossible to predict the effects of strong winds whipping through the river channel on the glass hotel.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition, the iron bridge was built with steel less pure and sturdy than materials available in 1986.\u00c2\u00a0 Rust on some of the beams could have lessened their strength by 30 percent.\u00c2\u00a0 These factors coupled together could have led to a collapse of the bridge deck beneath the hotel.<\/p>\n

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You don’t need to marry any more liabilities in your life,” Hall said.\u00c2\u00a0 He acknowledged the plan was fanciful, but, “It cost me about $600 to have somebody tell me it wouldn’t hold up.\u00c2\u00a0 I could have spent a half million dollars.\u00c2\u00a0 It was worth the study.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you think the idea of a hotel being built on top of a bridge strange, consider the London Bridge in 1209 when the decision was made to build structures including residences, shops and even a church on the sides of the bridge.\u00c2\u00a0 A lane was left down the middle to accommodate traffic traversing the Thames River.\u00c2\u00a0 The bridge was 26 feet wide, while the structures\u00c2\u00a0took up 7 feet on each side, leaving a 12 foot lane down the middle.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of the structures extended over\u00c2\u00a0the side of the bridge by up to 7 feet.<\/p>\n

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Wikipedia’s London Bridge article<\/a>
\nwhich is the source for the London Bridge information included in this post<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

The Historic Wells Street Bridge was built in 1860 and used until 1981 when the Hugh McCulloch Memorial Bridge\u00c2\u00a0was built just South of the Fairfield Avenue and Ewing Street intersection.<\/p>\n

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On August 5, 1986, Mayor Win Moses Jr. announced that the City of Fort Wayne intended to accept the Allen County offer to donate the Historic Wells Street Bridge to the city.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition, the county was also giving the $20,000 it had earmarked to demolish the structure to the city for its’ restoration of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[272,269,150,177,270,271],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-fort-wayne-mayor-win-moses-jr","tag-halls-restaurants","tag-headwaters-park","tag-historic-wells-street-bridge","tag-hugh-mcculloch-memorial-bridge","tag-london-bridge"],"yoast_head":"\n1986: Wells Street Bridge Proposal - AroundFortWayne<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On August 5, 1986, Mayor Win Moses Jr. announced that the City of Fort Wayne intended to accept the Allen County offer to donate the Historic Wells Street\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/2008\/03\/12\/1986-wells-street-bridge-proposal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1986: Wells Street Bridge Proposal - 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