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South Elevation, View Northwest
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North Elevation, View Southeast
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Overgrade Roadway, View Northeast
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Overgrade Roadway, View Northwest
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North Elevation As Seen From The Upstream Meadow, View Southwest
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Railing, View North
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Detail Of Railing And Railing Bracket, View Northwest
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Detail Of End Of Railing, View North
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Photocopy Of Drawing (original In Connecticut Department Of Transportation, Wethersfield); Connecticut State Highway Department, Approved December 1933
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Item Title
LocationSpanning Pequonnock River,
Trumbull, CT
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER CT-57
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-10).
Building/structure dates:
1935 initial construction
Significance: Pequonnock River Bridge is a component of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, in large part because of the architectural qualities of its more than 60 bridges. As a span that carries the parkway over an intersecting feature, this bridge is one of the more simply detailed structures.
Subjects
Girder BridgesTransportationVehicular Bridges
Related Names
Connecticut Highway Department
Dunkelberger, George L.
Moore, Robert, Photographer
Roth, Matthew, Historian
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. SOUTH ELEVATION, VIEW NORTHWEST
2. NORTH ELEVATION, VIEW SOUTHEAST
3. OVERGRADE ROADWAY, VIEW NORTHEAST
4. OVERGRADE ROADWAY, VIEW NORTHWEST
5. NORTH ELEVATION AS SEEN FROM THE UPSTREAM MEADOW, VIEW SOUTHWEST
6. RAILING, VIEW NORTH
7. DETAIL OF RAILING AND RAILING BRACKET, VIEW NORTHWEST
8. DETAIL OF END OF RAILING, VIEW NORTH
9. Photocopy of drawing (original in Connecticut Department of Transportation, Wethersfield); Connecticut State Highway Department, Approved December 1933. 'POQUONNOCK [sic] RIVER BRIDGE, MERRITT HIGHWAY [sic], TOWN OF TRUMBULL, SUPERSTRUCTURE.'
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