bridge tender's house
{{for|the article about the public art installation|Bridge Tender's House (artwork)}}
File:Bridge tender's house on south side of Chicago's Washington Blvd Bridge.jpg]]
A bridge tender's house is a structure near or upon a moveable bridge from which a bridge tender may operate the bridge and monitor river traffic, and in which they may reside. It may contain the controls and the mechanicals to operate the bridge.
File:Aerial view of Summer Street Bridge, July 1925.jpg in 1925; the bridge tender's house is seen to the left of the bridge, constructed on a platform above the water]]
References
{{reflist|refs=
{{cite web|title=Solitary Lives along Chicago's Lakes and Waterways|url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/300034.html|website=Encyclopedia of Chicago|publisher=University of Chicago Press|accessdate=28 April 2017}}
{{cite report |title=CHICAGO RIVER BASCULE BRIDGE, WELLS STREET BRIDGE, HAER No. IL-52 |url=https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/il/il0600/il0617/data/il0617data.pdf |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=28 April 2017}}
}}
External links
{{Commons category|Bridge tender houses|bridge tender's house}}
{{Bridge-type-stub}}