Purdy Bridge
Purdy Bridge | |
Location | Purdy, Washington |
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Coordinates | 47°23′02″N 122°37′41″W / 47.38389°N 122.62806°WCoordinates: 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[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)) between 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.
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.
- ^ "Purdy (Spit) Bridge is completed in Pierce County on September 29, 1937".
- ^ 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 in Pierce County, Washington
- Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
- Bridges in Pierce County, Washington
- Road bridges in Washington (state)
- Concrete bridges in the United States
- Box girder bridges in the United States
- Washington (state) Registered Historic Place stubs
- Western United States bridge (structure) stubs
- Washington (state) building and structure stubs
- Washington (state) transportation stubs