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Lost structure, Ira Township, 1922 to 2014

Vernier Street, Swan Creek Bridge

Demolished in 2014

Vernier Street-Swan Creek Bridge (Ira Township, Michigan), 2011 Photo: User:Notorious4life, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Opened
1922
Style
Concrete through girder
Torn down
2014

Designed by Michigan State Highway Department

The Vernier Street, Swan Creek Bridge stood in Ira Township from 1922 until 2014. Here is what it was, who made it and where to find the spot today.

On the map

What is there now

Demolished in 2014

We have not yet found a source that says what stands on the spot today. Last looked on October 25, 2026.

The story

By Victoria Jackson, Editor in Chief Updated

In 1922, in the years the auto age reached every town around Detroit, the Vernier Street, Swan Creek Bridge went up in Ira Township.

Michigan State Highway Department drew the plans, working in Concrete through girder.

It joined the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

It is gone now, demolished in 2014, and the map pin below marks where it stood.

The Vernier Street, Swan Creek Bridge was a historic bridge carrying Vernier Street over Swan Creek in Ira Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It was at one time one of the oldest remaining curved-chord though girder bridges, a design unique to the state of Michigan.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Timeline

  1. 1922 Built Designed by Michigan State Highway Department
  2. 2000 Listed on the National Register January 28, 2000
  3. 2014 Demolished
  4. 2026 Today 12 years since it came down

Where it is

Vernier Street over Swan Creek, Ira Township

On this map

  1. Vernier Street, Swan Creek Bridge This place

Street map from OpenStreetMap contributors

Who made it

Michigan State Highway Department
Photo: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Architect

Michigan State Highway Department

Government agency in Michigan, founded 1905. Designed Jefferson Avenue, Huron River and Harbin Drive, Silver Creek Canal Bridges (1930) and 2 more in Metro Detroit

Also by Michigan State Highway Department

Photo credits

Every photo on this page is used under its license, named here with its author and a link to the original.

  1. Vernier Street-Swan Creek Bridge (Ira Township, Michigan), 2011 Photo: User:Notorious4life, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources

Facts only, gathered from these sources. The story above is written by Rebuild Detroit. Every photo names its author and license where it appears.