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Mead Avenue Bridge, Spanning French Creek at Mead Avenue, Meadville, Crawford County, PA
Summary
Significance: Mead Avenue, formerly Dock Street, bears the unusual distinction of having two bridges on the same site at one time. Grafted to the original double-intersection Whipple truss built by Penn Bridge Works, external Baltimore trusses help this 1872 structure carry modern traffic loads. This compromise, born of economizing impulse and public turmoil, has allowed the bridge a longer life than might otherwise have been possible.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N598
Survey number: HAER PA-19
Building/structure dates: 1871-1872 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1911-1912 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Penn Bridge Works
Rodgers Brothers Company
Northwestern Pennsylvania Trolley Company
Union Iron Mills
T. B. White & Son
Cambria Steel Works
Lackawanna Steel Works
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, sponsor
Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, sponsor
DeLony, Eric N, project manager
Shackleford, Ben A, historian
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Gordon, Susan H, delineator
Maleeva, Julia, delineator
Wallace, Grace H, delineator
Zsembery, Rachel J, delineator
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Location
Meadville (Crawford County, Pa.), 41.63782, -80.16090
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
