Pine Creek Bridge, River Road spanning Pine Creek, Jersery Shore vicinity, Lycoming County, PA

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16 b&w photos
10 data pages
3 photo caption pages
3 color transparencies

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TITLE:
Pine Creek Bridge, River Road spanning Pine Creek, Jersery Shore vicinity, Lycoming County, PA

CALL NUMBER:
HAER PA-614

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 16 (5 x 7)
Data Page(s): 9 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 3
Color Transparencies: 3

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER PA-614

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N918).

Building/structure dates: 1889 initial construction

Significance: The Pine Creek Bridge is an outstanding example of a lenticular through truss. The lenticular, or parabolic, truss is a type developed during the mid-nineteenth century in Europe, but it enjoyed its greatest popularity in forms derived from designs by William O. Douglas and Charles Jarvis, engineers associated with the Berlin Iron Bridge Company. This company was the main producer of this unusual truss form, which was erected in many rural and urban settings throughout the United States between 1878 and 1900. The Pine Creek Bridge is one of the largest single span bridges (288') remaining in a group of about fifty surviving lenticulars. Its Warren pattern web bracing was typical for such long lenticulars as were the highly decorated portals for such through truss bridges. The Pine Creek Bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1988.

SUBJECTS:
PENNSYLVANIA--Lycoming County--Jersery Shore vicinity
vehicular bridges

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.pa3981

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. VIEW OF APPROACH ROAD TO BRIDGE, FROM SOUTH.
2. SW PORTAL ELEVATION.
3. PERSPECTIVE FROM SOUTH.
4. PERSPECTIVE FROM SOUTH.
5. EAST ELEVATION.
6. INTERIOR VIEW OF SPAN FROM SOUTH PORTAL TOWARDS NORTH PORTAL.
7. DETAIL OF PIN CONNECTION, PANEL AND BUILT-UP BOX BEAMS.
8. INTERIOR VIEW OF NORTH PORTAL.
9. DETAIL OF END POST WITH LATTICED BRACING, BUILDER'S PLATE AND DECORATIVE FINIAL.
10. DETAIL OF BUILDER'S PLATE AT NORTH PORTAL. PLATE READS: 1889, BUILT BY THE BERLIN IRON BRIDGE CO. EAST BERLIN CONN. DOUGLAS & JARVIS PAT. APT. 16, 1878, AP'L 17, 1885. A.P. FORESMAN, WM. S. STARR, T.J. STREBEIGH, COMMISSIONERS.
11. NORTH PORTAL ELEVATION.
12. NORTH PORTAL ELEVATION WITH APPROACH ROAD.
13. PERSPECTIVE FROM NORTHEAST.
14. GENERAL VIEW OF NORTH ELEVATION.
15. UNDERSIDE FROM NORTH SHORE.
16. SITE CONTEXT WITH APPROACH ROADS. NORTH PORTAL IN BACKGROUND.
PERSPECTIVE FROM SOUTH
EAST ELEVATION
GENERAL VIEW OF NORTH ELEVATION

CONTROL #:
PA3981

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