Lupus Bridge, Spanning Splice Creek at Moniteau County Road 4, Lupus vicinity, Moniteau County, MO

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TITLE:
Lupus Bridge, Spanning Splice Creek at Moniteau County Road 4, Lupus vicinity, Moniteau County, MO

CALL NUMBER:
HAER MO-85

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 14 (4 x 5)
Data Page(s): 10 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER MO-85

Building/structure dates: 1894 initial construction

Significance: Built one hundred years ago by one of the Midwest's most prolific bridge erectors, the Lupus Bridge features a pin-connected Pratt truss superstructure. From the 1870s through the 1910s, thousands of pinned Pratt trusses were erected on Missouri's roadways. Although several hundred of these structures remain in use today, relatively few date from before the turn of the century. And fewer yet of the 19th century survivors remain structurally intact. The Lupus Bridge stands out among Missouri's pin-connected trusses as an early, well-documented and well-preserved example of what was once a mainstay structural type.

SUBJECTS:
MISSOURI--Moniteau County--Lupus vicinity

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.mo1797

CONTROL #:
MO1797

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