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Blakeman Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Three-span arch bridge over Embarras River on TR 193 (Old IL 130)
- Location
- Coles County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1907 by the Mercantile Bridge Co. of Paris, IL
- Builder
- - Mercantile Bridge Co.
- Design
- Closed-spandrel arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 96.4 ft.
Total length: 258.8 ft.
Deck width: 18.3 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on November 30, 1981
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.45721, -88.14699 (decimal degrees)
39°27'26" N, 88°08'49" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/401321/4368143 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Charleston South
- Average daily traffic (as of 2014)
- 125
- Inventory numbers
- IL 015-3133 (Illinois bridge number)
NRHP 81000212 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 15082 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of December 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 21.9 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- April 16, 2019: New photo from Curtis Hudson
- July 24, 2016: New photos from David Huffman
- November 17, 2014: Photo imported by Dave King
- April 17, 2010: New photos from Robert Stephenson
- February 8, 2009: Updated by Robert Stephenson
Sources
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- David Huffman
- Curtis Hudson
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IDOT Bid tabulations show that in 2008 a contract was let to replace the railings with what appear to be replicas and also perform some other repairs to the bridge. Attached is a section from the plans showing the replacement railing.