Cold Spring Bridge

	Cold Spring Bridge
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Cold Spring Bridge, October 2012
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Location	2nd Street over Spring Creek, Whitehall Township and North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°42′3″N 75°31′1″W / 40.70083°N 75.51694°WCoordinates: 40°42′3″N 75°31′1″W / 40.70083°N 75.51694°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1930
Built by	Dawes & Norris
Architectural style	Open-spandrel arch
MPS	Highway Bridges Owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation TR
NRHP reference No.	88000874
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1988

Cold Spring Bridge is a historic concrete open-spandrel arch bridge located at Whitehall Township and North Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1930, and is a 228-foot-long (69 m) bridge, with a single 160-foot-long (49 m) arch consisting of six symmetrically placed spandrel arches. It crosses Spring Creek.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.^[1]

In 2014 the bridge was considered to be structurally deficient and scheduled to be replaced by a three span bulb T-beam bridge costing $3.8 million. It had an average daily traffic volume of 2,461 vehicles.^[3]^[4]

Demolition of the Cold Spring Bridge in 2014

References[]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes R.J. Fink (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Cold Spring Bridge" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-08.
^ "Lehigh Co - Cold Spring Bridge Project in Whitehall Twp". WFMZ 69 News. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
^ Esack, Steve. "PennDOT surpasses road, bridge repair goals". The Morning Call. Retrieved 27 December 2014. includes video

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[arch-2] "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes R.J. Fink (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Cold Spring Bridge" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-08.

[wfmz-3] "Lehigh Co - Cold Spring Bridge Project in Whitehall Twp". WFMZ 69 News. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.

[mcall-4] Esack, Steve. "PennDOT surpasses road, bridge repair goals". The Morning Call. Retrieved 27 December 2014. includes video

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