Facts
- Overview
- Covered bridge over Ware River on Bridge Street in Hardwick
- Location
- Worcester County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1887; rehabilitated 1987
- Design
- Covered Through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 130.9 ft.
Total length: 139.1 ft.
Deck width: 19.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.4 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.30972, -72.21222 (decimal degrees)
42°18'35" N, 72°12'44" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/729762/4687929 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Ware
- Inventory number
- BH 19477 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection (as of 06/2005)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 14.6 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2001)
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