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Chestnut Street Schuylkill River Bridge

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

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Phila Chestnut Street Bridge01

Chestnut Street Bridge, looking downstream from the Market Street Bridge

Photo taken by D. Thomsen

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BH Photo #172480

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Overview
Girder bridge over Schuylkill River on Chestnut Street
Location
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1912; rehabilitated 1957
Design
Girder
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 175.9 ft.
Total length: 371.1 ft.
Deck width: 44.3 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.95300, -75.18080   (decimal degrees)
39°57'11" N, 75°10'51" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/484556/4422556 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Philadelphia
Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
13,591
Inventory numbers
PA 67 0003 0090 2293 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
PANBI 38938 (Pennsylvania BRKEY bridge number on the 2011 NBI)
BH 45854 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of March 2018)
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 63.1 (out of 100)
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Categories 

Built 1912 (830)
Built during 1910s (9,676)
Continuous (2,502)
Girder (10,299)
Have street view (27,070)
Open (39,983)
Owned by state (16,053)
 Pennsylvania (5,334)
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania (219)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (202)
Schuylkill River (82)
Span length 175-250 feet (1,992)
Structurally deficient (14,100)
Total length 250-500 feet (5,257)

Update Log 

  • November 25, 2017: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
  • August 10, 2010: Updated by D. Thomsen: Changed location

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Chestnut Street Bridge
Posted August 10, 2010, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

My guess would be that it is a 1957 bridge on a substructure that is partly composed of 1912 stone piers and abutments from a previous bridge. If you look at the pier, there seems to be a combination of stone and concrete.