Route 206 Raritan River Bridge, U.S. Route 206 over Raritan River, Somerville, Somerset County, NJ
Summary
Significance: The Route 206 Raritan River Bridge is a well-preserved example of a concrete open-spandrel, barrel-arch bridge, representative of the early work of New Jersey State Highway Department Chief Bridge Engineer Morris Goodkind. Goodkind made important contributions to twentieth-century highway bridge engineering, particularly of concrete bridges.
Survey number: HAER NJ-130
Building/structure dates: 1929 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Goodkind, Morris
Hunter, W F
Lichtenberg, Arthur G
Edward H. Ellis Company
Alfson, Mary, transmitter
Tucher, Rob, photographer
Casella, Richard M, historian
Location
Somerville (N.J.), 40.57427, -74.60988
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