River Street Bridge, River Street, spanning Moosup River, Plainfield, Windham County, CT
Summary
Significance: River Street Bridge is significant as a well-preserved, representative example of 19th-century bridge engineering; its patented lenticular design, pinned connections, and wrought-iron material are typical of the period 1880-1900. It also has significance as one of relatively few bridges remaining in Connecticut that were made by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, a major regional fabricator and the state's only large bridge-building firm in that period. The bridge was built following a disastrous flood that destroyed many bridges in Plainfield and other eastern Connecticut towns.
Survey number: HAER CT-179
Building/structure dates: 1886 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1900
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Berlin Iron Bridge Company
Meyer, Lauren, transmitter
Moore, Rob, photographer
Clouette, Bruce, historian
Location
Plainfield (Conn.), 41.67649, -71.91507
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html