so they got an architect named glen brown at the turn of the he 20 20th century to design this esign ands he used trendy design elements at the time.time. this was the time of the city beautiful movement.mov so the bridge rather than being a simple utilitarian structure, d it's this grand bridge with the neo classical arches, it looks like roman auk we ducts.tiful it was part of the city autifu beautiful movement. the city beautiful movement was popularized during the world's in fair in chicago. th the other main sort of aesthetic of the world's fair was a ntic o romanticization of thef frontier. was t this was the closing of the frontier. there's a romanticization going on of the american frontier.ican so glen brown wanted the bridge, not only to look like part of the cityci beautiful aesthetic, but also to have some nostalgia out a about a bygone american past.t. so they put four gigantic o alon buffalo along the top of the idge a bridge and thennd decided to carve into each side of the bridge 28 indian busts. they used what they thought was thoug aht generic plains indian head. an