Rating:
12098
{98}%
3 votes
Bulkeley Bridge
Photos
Photo taken by Doug Kerr
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BH Photo #178108
Description
How often does one find an early 20th century stone arch bridge on an Interstate highway? Not too often! This bridge is actually one of the oldest bridges in use on the Interstate system.
Facts
- Overview
- Nine-span stone arch bridge over Connecticut River on I-84 in Hartford
- Location
- Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1908; rehabilitated 1964
- Builder
- - Edwin Dwight Graves
- Design
- Stone arch with steel stringer ramp approaches
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 119.1 ft.
Total length: 1,075.2 ft.
Deck width: 109.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 18.7 ft.
- Recognition
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Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 1993
- Also called
- Morgan G. Bulkeley Bridge (official name)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.76928, -72.66556 (decimal degrees)
41°46'09" N, 72°39'56" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/694036/4626793 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Hartford North
- Average daily traffic (as of 2015)
- 90,900
- Inventory numbers
- CT 980A (Connecticut bridge number)
NRHP 93001347 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 12098 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of September 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 71.2 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- November 19, 2022: New video from I Scoot CT
- May 9, 2021: New photo from Chester Gehman
- April 21, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- April 18, 2021: New photos from Josh Schmid
- September 19, 2010: New photos from Doug Kerr
- April 12, 2010: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added short description.
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