Cold Spring Bridge

Cold Spring Bridge
Cold Spring Bridge, October 2012
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°W / 40.70083; -75.51694Coordinates: 40°42′3″N 75°31′1″W / 40.70083°N 75.51694°W / 40.70083; -75.51694
Area less than one acre
Built 1930
Built by Dawes & Norris
Architectural style Other, Open-spandrel arch
MPS Highway Bridges Owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation TR
NRHP reference # 88000874[1]
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]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  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.
  3. ↑ "Lehigh Co - Cold Spring Bridge Project in Whitehall Twp". WFMZ 69 News. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  4. ↑ Esack, Steve. "PennDOT surpasses road, bridge repair goals". The Morning Call. Retrieved 27 December 2014. includes video


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