Purdy Bridge
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| 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 | Craft,W.H. |
| Architectural style | Other |
| MPS | Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR |
| NRHP Reference # | [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 Henderson Bay, Washington and Burley Lagoon, 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
- ↑ Staff (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ 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.
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