Jerome Bridge, Spanning Gasconade River at Missouri State Route D, Jerome, Phelps County, MO
Summary
Significance: The Jerome Bridge is a four-span pin-connected, Pratt through truss, and is significant as a relatively uncommon example of a multiple-span, pinned through truss. Built as a toll bridge by the Jerome Bridge Company, the structure is significant as well for its association with the growing toll bridge industry of the 1920s.
Survey number: HAER MO-89
Building/structure dates: 1927-1928 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1928 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Freemont, John Charles
Rucker, John & Booker
Fitzpatrick, Lawrence W
Woods, Charles Lewis
Missouri Highway & Transportation Department
Wegman-French, Lysa, transmitter
Wright, Michael, photographer
Austin, David C, historian
Location
Jerome, 37.92721, -91.98700
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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