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Mount Hope Bridge

Bristol County, Rhode Island
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Photo taken by Wayne Grodkiewicz

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Overview
Suspension bridge over Mount Hope Bay on RI 114 in Bristol
Location
Bristol County, Rhode Island
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1929; rehabilitated 1985
Builders
- David B. Steinman (Engineer)
- Holton D. Robinson (Engineer)
- Robinson & Steinman (Engineering Firm)
Design
Wire suspension
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 1,200.2 ft.
Total length: 5,050.1 ft. (1.0 mi.)
Deck width: 26.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.0 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 1976
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.64000, -71.25833   (decimal degrees)
41°38'24" N, 71°15'30" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
19/311913/4612270 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Bristol
Inventory numbers
NRHP 76000038 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
RI 3000 (Rhode Island bridge number)
BH 31889 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 10/2010)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 54.3 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2003)
17,700

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Bristol County, Rhode Island (3)
Built 1929 (670)
Built during 1920s (7,031)
David B. Steinman (13)
Have street view (9,883)
Holton D. Robinson (9)
NR-listed (2,353)
Navigable waterway (1,448)
Open (28,305)
 Owned by bridge authority (139)
RI 114 (6)
Rhode Island (108)
Robinson & Steinman (7)
Span length over 1000 feet (105)
Structurally deficient (16,677)
Suspension (278)
Total length over 2500 feet (587)

Update Log 

  • June 11, 2012: New Street View added by Nathan Holth
  • December 4, 2006: Posted photo from Wayne Grodkiewicz

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Mount Hope Bridge
Posted January 5, 2013, by t. grenier (rimouse0204 [at] aol [dot] com)

....My daughter-in-law snapped this beautiful picture of the Mt.Hope Bridge (with me under it) yesterday in the Sun....

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Mount Hope Bridge
Posted January 4, 2013, by t. grenier (rimouse0204 [at] aol [dot] com)

Wayne, thank you very much for that pretty, pretty picture of the Mt.Hope Bridge. I paint (not professionally), and I'm painting it from your angle but at night though. So I'm using your photograph as a focal point. Thank you, I will post a picture of the painting afterward. I remember playing under that bridge while my sisters gathered mussels, over 45 years ago......

Mount Hope Bridge
Posted February 10, 2007, by Anonymous

Great Story! Many people read this site and you woudn't know it...but a story like yours is a great one.

Mount Hope Bridge
Posted February 8, 2007, by Carol Anderheggen (carolmaeray [at] cox [dot] net)

I live near this bridge, actually about 30 seconds from where the photo was taken. I love this bridge. When the state was replacing the cabling in 2000 they announced that the decorative lights were not going to be replaced. I and many others wrote letters to newspapers, historic preservation agencies, and government agencies.

We were successful in having new lights installed. The tradition had been that the lights were lit only on national holidays. When I came back from NYC in October 2001 (I had been working the Red Cross response to 9/11) the lights were on at night and have been ever since.

Those lights lifted my spirit that night and have ever since!