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 |
| Governing body | State |
| MPS | Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR |
| NRHP Reference # |
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 Henderson Bay 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
- ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23.
- ↑ 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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