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Hotel Bridge
Photos
Hotel Bridge
Photo taken by C Hanchey in August 2013
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
BH Photo #276543
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Mill River on Old Shepherd Road in Northampton
- Location
- Leeds, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Intact but closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1880 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Co.
- Builder
- - Wrought Iron Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 128.9 ft.
Total length: 130.9 ft.
Deck width: 11.2 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.7 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Old Shepherd Bridge
Leeds Hotel Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.35028, -72.70222 (decimal degrees)
42°21'01" N, 72°42'08" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/689254/4691225 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Easthampton
- Inventory numbers
- MA N19027 (Massachusetts bridge number)
BH 19335 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of September 2009)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 15 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- June 23, 2014: Updated by Chester Gehman: Added category "Pin-connected"
- March 1, 2014: Updated by C Hanchey: Built 1908 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Co.
- November 7, 2013: New Street View added by J.P.
Sources
- C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Comments
Hotel Bridge
Such incredible details in this bridge and local preservationists and the city working together to come up with a plan to reopen and then restore.
Hotel Bridge
The Workin' Bridges team will be traveling to a new state for us to give it the Nels Raynor/Jim Schiffer Scope of Work and Estimate. Takes some time to get all of the arrangements into place but we think this will be a good turn for the preservation of this bridge.
Hotel Bridge
This in from Leeds Civic....
Hotel Bridge
A push is being made to save the bridge:
http://www.gazettenet.com/news/townbytown/northampton/134725...
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Check out LeedsCivic.org for more photos and information. Check out how the City of Northampton and groups like LCA are working together. There is a video link there to the city television station who did a great job of documenting this important meeting. As a side note they have met and voted to let us continue to look at the process given their site conditions. More, as always, will be revealed.