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Purdy Bridge
Purdy Bridge is located in Washington (state)
Purdy Bridge
LocationPurdy, Washington
Built1936
ArchitectCraft,W.H.
Architectural styleOther
MPSHistoric Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
NRHP reference No.82004274 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 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)) over Henderson Bay, connecting Purdy, Washington, USA with the Purdy Sand Spit Park. 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.

See also

List of Registered Historic Places in Washington

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=7133
  3. ^ Holstine 2005, pp. 219–220
  4. ^ Slater p.102

Sources

  • Holstine, Craig; Hobbs, Richard (2005). Spanning Washington: Historic Highway Bridges of the Evergreen State, Washington State University Press, ISBN 0874222818.
  • Slater, Colleen A. (2007). The Key Peninsula, Arcadia Publishing.