From the beginning, the foot bridge
(also known as the Honeysuckle Bridge) crossed the Glen from the train station toward
the Forest Inn (later called the Main Building). It was 220 feet long, supported
on light iron trusses.
A pair of bridges carried carriage
and
automobile traffic through the front gates. The first bridge (which was sometimes called
the Wood Bridge) ran from the Train Station to the edge of the Glen next to
Villa and the Beta Castle. The road continued on solid ground for a short distance, and then ran
across a second bridge which ended next to the Delta Colonial House and the Kappa
Windmill.
The drawbridge from the Beta Castle
intersected the second of these bridges.
The Pergola Bridge connected
Villa to a point between the Beta Colonial house and Practice House. If it was nice weather, you could
walk on top of it, where roses might be blooming, or in rainy weather, you could
walk in the shelter underneath.
The Dog Bridge and the Sphinx
Bridge (so named for figures that guarded the entrances) were two adjacent
bridges behind the Odeon that allowed traffic from the county road which looped briefly down into
the Glen to feed into what is now Linden Lane. Since Linden Lane now
curves into a modern bridge over the Beltway, the need is not so apparent now. When this
new bridge was built and Linden Lane was connected to it, the Sphinx Bridge was torn down. The Dog
Bridge still exists, although the unusual howling dog statues which graced it have
long since gone.