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Bulkeley Bridge

Hartford County, Connecticut

Photos 

Photo taken by Doug Kerr

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BH Photo #178108

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Street Views 

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
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
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

Categories 

Arch (12,319)
Beam (16,032)
Built 1908 (759)
Built during 1900s (7,379)
Connecticut (797)
Connecticut River (97)
Deck arch (11,557)
Edwin Dwight Graves (2)
Flared (403)
Hartford County, Connecticut (142)
Hartford, Connecticut (26)
 Have street view (27,300)
Interstate 84 (7)
NR-listed (2,981)
Navigable waterway (2,171)
Open (40,093)
Owned by state (16,164)
Skewed (4,936)
Span length 100-125 feet (4,433)
Steel stringer (6,385)
Stone arch (3,130)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,907)

Update Log 

  • 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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Bulkeley Bridge
Posted January 1, 2009, by Gerry (gerryj56 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

I have a brass Pin of the Hartford Bridge Oct. 6,7,8, 1908. The front has a chip of stone. The reverse states " Chip from Stone in Bridge Guaranteed by Noble & Westbrook Hartford, Conn.

Any idea of value?