Purdy Bridge

	Purdy Bridge
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Purdy, Washington
Coordinates	47°23′02″N 122°37′41″W / 47.38389°N 122.62806°W
Built	1936
Architect	W.H. Craft
MPS	Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
NRHP reference No.	82004274
Added to NRHP	July 16, 1982

The Purdy Bridge is a continuous hollow-box girder bridge that spans 550 feet (170 m) (with a central span of 190 feet (58 m)) between Henderson Bay, Washington and Burley Lagoon, connecting Purdy, Washington with the Purdy Sand Spit Park and Wauna, Washington. It was built on September 29, 1937,^[2] and at the time was the longest continuous box girder bridge in the US, at a cost of $62,000 from a design by Homer M. Hadley.^[3] At the time it was built, Purdy Bridge was the first bridge in the United States to utilize a reinforced-concrete box girder design.^[4]

The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ "Purdy (Spit) Bridge is completed in Pierce County on September 29, 1937".
^ Holstine & Hobbs 2005, pp. 219–220
^ Slater 2007, p. 102

Sources

Holstine, Craig E.; Hobbs, Richard (2005). Spanning Washington : historic highway bridges of the Evergreen State. Pullman, Wash.: Washington State University Press. ISBN 0-87422-281-8. OCLC 58043209.
Slater, Colleen A. (2007). The Key Peninsula. OCLC 1065553228.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.

[2] "Purdy (Spit) Bridge is completed in Pierce County on September 29, 1937".

[3] Holstine & Hobbs 2005, pp. 219–220

[4] Slater 2007, p. 102

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