Golden Hill Road Bridge

Photos 

General View From Roadway, Looking South

Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record

View photos at Library of Congress

BH Photo #218828

Map 

Facts 

Overview

Lenticular pony truss bridge formerly over Housatonic River on Golden Hill Road

Location

Lee, Berkshire County, Massachusetts

Status

In storage and awaiting reconstruction at University of Massachusetts-Amherst

History

Built 1885; rehabilitated 1970

Builder

- Berlin Iron Bridge Co. of East Berlin, Connecticut

Design

Lenticular pony truss

Dimensions

Length of largest span: 81.0 ft.
Total length: 83.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.4 ft.

Recognition

Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on February 9, 1994

Also called

Tuttle Bridge

Approximate latitude, longitude

+42.32167, -73.24167   (decimal degrees)
42°19'18" N, 73°14'30" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")

Approximate UTM coordinates

18/644887/4686988 (zone/easting/northing)

Quadrangle map:

East Lee

Inventory numbers

NRHP 93001592 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 49943 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Update Log 

• June 4, 2020: New photos from Chester Gehman
• May 30, 2017: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
• December 5, 2016: New photos from Chester Gehman
• May 4, 2016: New photo from Art Suckewer
• June 14, 2014: Updated by Chester Gehman: NRHP listing
• June 9, 2014: Updated by Chester Gehman: Added town of Lee, MA
• October 27, 2011: Added by James Baughn

Sources 

• HAER MA-105 - Tuttle Bridge, Spanning Housatonic River on Golden Hill Road, Lee, Berkshire, MA
• Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
• Art Suckewer - Asuckewer [at] knite [dot] com

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