Dumbarton Bridge
- Architect
- Glenn Brown
- Year
- 1915
- Style
- Romanesque Revival
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- romanesque revival
The Dumbarton Bridge, also called the Q Street Bridge or Buffalo Bridge, is a masonry arch bridge built in 1914-1915 to carry Q Street NW across Rock Creek Park between Dupont Circle and Georgetown. Architect Glenn Brown designed the span in the Romanesque Revival style, built after Georgetown residents spent years pushing to reduce traffic on M Street rather than fill in the creek itself.
the building
Buffalo sculptures. The bridge is best known for the buffalo sculptures that give it its popular nickname, ornamental figures set along a Romanesque Revival arcade of masonry arches.
the style
Glenn Brown's Romanesque Revival design gives the bridge round masonry arches and heavy stonework, a treatment meant to read as substantial and civic rather than merely utilitarian.
More on Romanesque Revivalsignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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