Roaring Creek Bridge, State Road 2005 spanning Roaring Creek in Locust Township, Slabtown, Columbia County, PA
Summary
Significance: The two-span, 97' long reinforced bridge at Slabtown over Roaring Creek has neo-classical balustrades making it one of the earliest examples of an architectonic deck arch bridge in the region. Although it is situated in a rural village setting, it reflects the tenets of the City Beautiful movement. The bridge's significance lies in the rarity of its design in a region that holds no other parallel examples.
Survey number: HAER PA-631
Building/structure dates: 1913 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Ferro-Concrete Company
Fink, J A
McIlvaine, J S
Reinard Brothers
Welliver, Charles E
Lenhard, C Fred
Fleckenstine, George
Smith, Charles E
Fink, G A
Burnham, Daniel
Croteau, Todd, project manager
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, sponsor
Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, sponsor
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Vidutis, Richard, historian
Location
Slabtown, 40.90509, -76.40884
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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