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Allentown Road Bridge, Spanning Skippack Creek on Allentown Road, Franconia, Montgomery County, PA
Summary
Significance: The Allentown Road Bridge is a representative example of a small span masonry arch bridge built for 19th century highway traffic in Pennsylvania. It exhibits a regional stylistic variation, similar to five multiple span stone arch bridges built at that time in Montgomery County. The bridge is one of 144 Pennsylvania highway bridges thematically nominated to the National Register of Historic Places.
Survey number: HAER PA-112
Building/structure dates: 1837 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1874 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1918 Subsequent Work
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Cresson, James
Just, William
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
Moore, William
Pennemen, Robert
Houpt, Ezekiel
Houpt, Isaiah B
Hagey, Henry
Spero, Paula A, C, contractor
Shelley, Robert C, photographer
Location
Franconia (Pa. : Township), 40.27660, -75.33422
Source
Library of Congress
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
