Lupus Bridge, Spanning Splice Creek at Moniteau County Road 4, Lupus, Moniteau County, MO
Summary
Significance: Built one hundred years ago by one of the Midwest's most prolific bridge erectors, the Lupus Bridge features a pin-connected Pratt truss superstructure. From the 1870s through the 1910s, thousands of pinned Pratt trusses were erected on Missouri's roadways. Although several hundred of these structures remain in use today, relatively few date from before the turn of the century. And fewer yet of the 19th century survivors remain structurally intact. The Lupus Bridge stands out among Missouri's pin-connected trusses as an early, well-documented and well-preserved example of what was once a mainstay structural type.
Survey number: HAER MO-85
Building/structure dates: 1894-1895 Initial Construction
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Tags
vehicular bridges
lupus
bridge
lupus bridge
splice
splice creek
moniteau
moniteau county road
moniteau county
missouri
clayton b fraser
fraserdesign
lloyd grotjan
historic american engineering record
kansas city bridge and iron company
lysa wegman french
photo
ultra high resolution
high resolution
library of congress
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Kansas City Bridge & Iron Company
Fraserdesign, contractor
Wegman-French, Lysa, transmitter
Grotjan, Lloyd, photographer
Fraser, Clayton B, historian
Location
Lupus
,
38.84615, -92.45324
Source
Library of Congress
Link
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