Singing Bridge, U.S. Route 1, over Patchogue River, Westbrook, Middlesex County, CT

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TITLE:
Singing Bridge, U.S. Route 1, over Patchogue River, Westbrook, Middlesex County, CT

CALL NUMBER:
HAER CONN,4-WESBK,2-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 15 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 5 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 3

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER CT-167

Building/structure dates: 1925 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1952 subsequent work

Significance: Singing Bridge, State Bridge Number 00349, has been determined eligible for listing to the National Register of Historic Places by the Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). Singing Bridge is significant for its association with the growth of the Connecticut state government's responsibility for bridge construction and design, and was the largest project in a phase of smaller bridge reconstructions undertaken along U.S. Route 1 during the 1920s. Singing Bridge is significant as a well-preserved example of an early-twentieth-century Pratt steel truss highway bridge, and as an example of a bridge designed as a response to the increasing motor vehicle weights of the 1920s.

SUBJECTS:
CONNECTICUT--Middlesex County--Westbrook

OTHER TITLE:
State Bridge No. 00349

COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ct0639

CONTROL #:
CT0639

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