Purdy Bridge
Appearance
Purdy Bridge | |
Location | Purdy, Washington |
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Built | 1936 |
Architect | Craft,W.H. |
Architectural style | Other |
MPS | Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR |
NRHP reference No. | 82004274 [1] |
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)) 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
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=7133
- ^ Holstine 2005, pp. 219–220
- ^ Slater p.102
Sources
- Holstine, Craig; Hobbs, Richard (2005). Spanning Washington: Historic Highway Bridges of the Evergreen State, Washington State University Press, ISBN 0-87422-281-8.
- Slater, Colleen A. (2007). The Key Peninsula, Arcadia Publishing.
Categories:
- Bridges completed in 1936
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Pierce County, Washington
- Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
- Buildings and structures in Pierce County, Washington
- Transportation in Pierce County, Washington
- Road bridges in Washington (state)
- Washington (state) Registered Historic Place stubs
- Washington (state) building and structure stubs