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First Street Bridge

Napa County, California

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First Street Bridge

Replacement bridge, 2009, looking south.

Photo taken by Craig Philpott in August 2009

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BH Photo #145625

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Lost concrete tee beam bridge over Napa River on First Street in Napa
Location
Napa, Napa County, California
Status
Replaced by new bridge
History
Built 1914, replaced 2009
Builders
- C. H. Gildersleeve of Napa, California (Builder)
- John B. Leonard of Union City, Michigan (Engineer)
- T.Y. Lin International of San Francisco, California (Replacement bridge)
Design
Concrete beam
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 84.0 ft.
Total length: 154.9 ft.
Deck width: 41.7 ft.
Skew angle
21 degrees
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
Also called
Napa River First Street Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.30194, -122.27889   (decimal degrees)
38°18'07" N, 122°16'44" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
10/563051/4239563 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Napa
Elevation
17 ft. above sea level
Inventory numbers
CA 21C-95 (California bridge number)
BH 43269 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Beam (15,810)
Built 1914 (812)
Built during 1910s (9,677)
C. H. Gildersleeve (8)
California (2,629)
Concrete tee beam (3,177)
Continuous (2,503)
John B. Leonard (24)
Lost (25,007)
Lost 2009 (339)
Lost during 2000s (4,200)
 NR-listed (2,962)
Napa County, California (82)
Napa, California (22)
Owned by city (5,476)
Replaced by new bridge (16,797)
Skewed (4,915)
Span length 75-100 feet (6,454)
Structurally deficient (14,098)
T.Y. Lin International (8)
Total length 125-175 feet (5,938)

Update Log 

  • March 10, 2014: Updated by Craig Philpott: added builder info
  • April 22, 2013: Updated by Craig Philpott: added historical engineer name
  • May 20, 2010: New photos from Kevin Pope
  • April 5, 2010: New photos from Craig Philpott
  • April 2, 2010: New photo from Craig Philpott
  • March 27, 2010: New photos from Jason Smith
  • December 10, 2009: New photos from Kevin Pope
  • August 23, 2009: Added by Craig Philpott

Sources 

  • Craig Philpott - craigphilpott63 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Kevin Pope
  • Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
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Comments 

First Street Bridge photo mix-up
Posted April 2, 2010, by Craig Philpott (cphilpott [at] puc [dot] edu)

The historical photos posted to this bridge are for a different bridge. All the HAER photos that show a stone faced bridge from 1914 are for a bridge on First Street three or four blocks West of this bridge location. The HAER photos are for the "lost" bridge BH 11203, Napa Creek Bridge on first street.

This bridge crosses the Napa River, was built in 1915 and was the first reinforced concrete bridge in Napa County without stone facing.