The Washington Avenue Bridge carries County Road 122 and the METRO Green Line light rail across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, connecting the East Bank and West Bank campuses of the University
The Washington Avenue Bridge from the southeast
The Mississippi River looking downstream (southeast) toward the University of Minnesota Medical Center.
Original bridge circa 1885 showing residences on the Bohemian Flats
East entrance to the bridge, prior to the lower level reconfiguration for the METRO Green Line.
John Berryman
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John Allyn McAlpin Berryman was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" schoo
Washington Avenue Bridge (Minneapolis)
…contained lead and had to be carefully removed. A darker facet of the bridge's history is its association with suicide. Poet and university professor John Berryman is the most famous person to have killed himself at the site, when he jumped from the bridge in 1972. About a half-dozen others have also died by landing…
John Berryman
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