Pulaski Street Bridge
Description
Bridge is not technically "lost." To placate community outrage at its replacement, the pieces were not scrapped, but stored for some future use. Unfortunately, the sections were taken apart with a cutting torch, not un-bolted carefully, making future use unlikely. The dis-assembled bridge can be found in the weeds in Kosciuszko Park, Stamford. It will most likely be quietly cut up at some point and scrapped.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Lenticular through truss bridge over Rippowan River on Pulaski Street in Stamford
- Location
- Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1887 by Berlin Iron Bridge Co.; Replaced 1987
- Builder
- - Berlin Iron Bridge Co. of East Berlin, Connecticut
- Design
- Lenticular through truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 148.0 ft.
- Also called
- Oliver Street Bridge
Waterside Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.04407, -73.54498 (decimal degrees)
41°02'39" N, 73°32'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/622289/4544668 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Stamford
- Inventory number
- BH 71552 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 3, 2022: New photo from Chester Gehman
- December 5, 2021: New photo from Art Suckewer
- January 30, 2021: New photos from Patrick Gurwell
- February 3, 2018: New photo from Art Suckewer
- April 23, 2016: Updated by Chester Gehman: Not exactly "lost"
- March 28, 2016: Added by ArtS
Sources
- Art Suckewer - Asuckewer [at] knite [dot] com
- Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Patrick Gurwell - pgurwell [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
BTW, The pieces are visible on Google Earth. Find Kosciuszko Park, Stamford, CT and open up historical imagery. Scroll back to 3/2012. The foliage is sparse enough for you to see the pieces lying there in the northwest corner near the water.
It will just take a will and money. I'll leave to the experts to determine if it will require cubic feet or cubic yards of money :^)
Regards,
Art S.
Thanks for finding this Chester! Its a sad thing to see a Lenticular in this state, but I'll take "extant" over "scrapped" any day. I'd like to think that there has to be some group that would like the chance to have/rebuild a lenticular, even if it has been torch cut and siting in a pile for close to 30 years.
Chester,
Thanks for the update!
At least it exists. So, for now, there is still a chance.
Regards,
Art S.
PS. A similar thing happened to this bridge:http://historicbridges.org/b_a_county.php?county=Crawford%20County,%20Pennsylvania
but its already gone.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ct/fairfield/waterside/
I have added a page from a Berlin catalog which describes the unique construction of this bridge:
"The bridge is on a grade of about three feet in its length, which is hardly noticeable from a distance, but it shows the great adaptability of the parabolic truss to bridges of this class--bridges on a grade.
The truss is placed horizontally, perfectly level, and the floor is made tangent to the truss at the center; one end-post is lengthened, while the other end-post is shortened an equal amount, so that the bridge is not distorted in any way, nor is there any ambiguity in the amount or character of the strain, owing to the bridge being on a grade. This is the only form of truss made in which this condition prevails."