Old Roosevelt Road Bridge

This small concrete bridge carries Roosevelt Road over a drainage ditch on Little Rock's southeast side. Dixon and Dixon of Warren, Arkansas, built it in 1935 on a contract of $8,226.54, part of the Little Rock City Connection that gave drivers a more direct route between U.S. 65 and U.S. 70 without passing through downtown. It is a single-span reinforced concrete deck girder set at a 50-degree skew, with guardrail spindles in Art Deco style, and plaques at each end read Dixon and Dixon, Contractor, 1935. A 2025 National Register nomination describes it as unaltered since it was built.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site — 0.9 mi
  The 1927 high school where nine Black students entered under federal troops on September 25, 1957, with a National Park Service visitor center across the intersection.
• Arkansas State Capitol — 1.6 mi
  The neo-classical Capitol built from 1899 to 1915 on the old penitentiary site with state convict labor, free to enter, with the Little Rock Nine monument on the grounds.
• Mosaic Templars Cultural Center — 1.7 mi
  The state museum of African American history on the site of the Mosaic Templars of America headquarters, a Black fraternal order's 1913 building on West Ninth Street.
• Old State House Museum — 2.1 mi
  The oldest standing state capitol west of the Mississippi, where lawmakers met from 1836, enslaved people were auctioned in the east wing and Arkansas voted to secede.

More markers nearby

• Fort Steele — 1.3 mi
• BISHOP CHARLES HARRISON MASON — 1.7 mi
• Pulaski County County Government — 2.1 mi
• The Camden Expedition — 2.1 mi