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Aiken Street Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Aiken Street, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

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Aiken Street Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Aiken Street, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

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Significance: The Aiken Street Bridge is the longest lenticular bridge surviving in the United States, and is the only remaining example having more than three spans. It is the second oldest of the eight lenticular bridges under Massachusetts Department of Public Works purview. The bridge's fabricator, the Corrugated Metal Company, became the Berlin Iron Bridge Company in 1883, and was one of the leading bridge-building companies in New England in the late-nineteenth century.
Survey number: HAER MA-106
Building/structure dates: 1883 Initial Construction

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1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Corrugated Metal Company
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