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Cottage Street Bridge

Berkshire County, Massachusetts

Photos 

South elevation

Photo taken by Joshua Colella

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BH Photo #233538

Map 

Street View 

Description 

This structure was originally built in 1934 in North Adams. It was disassembled in 1959 and stored in the maintenance yard of MDPW (Orchard Street, Dalton). The truss and most of the floorbeams were salvaged/reconstructed at its current location (Cottage Street). (Source: Construction Plan Set Dated Nov. 1961, Sheet 5 of 6)

Facts 

Overview
Pony truss bridge over Housatonic River on Cottage Street in Great Barrington
Location
Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Status
Open to pedestrians only; due for replacement
History
Built 1934; rehabilitated and moved here in 1961 to replace a lenticular truss of 1887.
Design
Parker pony truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 123.0 ft.
Total length: 133.9 ft.
Deck width: 29.9 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+42.19806, -73.36083   (decimal degrees)
42°11'53" N, 73°21'39" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/635331/4673067 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Great Barrington
Average daily traffic (as of 2018)
240
Inventory numbers
MA G11006 (Massachusetts bridge number)
BH 19186 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of June 2018)
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 40.9 (out of 100)
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Categories 

Berkshire County, Massachusetts (100)
Built 1934 (795)
Built during 1930s (11,774)
Doomed (1,091)
Great Barrington, Massachusetts (12)
Have street view (27,070)
Housatonic River (47)
Massachusetts (1,113)
Open to pedestrians (4,253)
 Owned by township (2,741)
Parker pony truss (383)
Parker truss (1,684)
Pony truss (16,244)
Relocated (910)
Span length 100-125 feet (4,409)
Total length 125-175 feet (5,937)
Truss (32,975)

Update Log 

  • April 7, 2021: New photos from Patrick Gurwell
  • June 16, 2020: Updated by Chester Gehman: Bridge is open to pedestrians only and is due for replacement
  • February 24, 2017: New photos from Chester Gehman
  • January 6, 2015: New photos from Jack Schmidt
  • November 7, 2013: New Street View added by J.P.
  • June 19, 2012: New photos from Joshua Colella

Sources 

  • Joshua Colella
  • J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
  • Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Patrick Gurwell - pgurwell [at] gmail [dot] com
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Cottage Street Bridge
Posted June 16, 2020, by Chester Gehman (gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

Great Barrington seems to be between a rock and a hard place over this bridge, and it will probably be closed until 2023. That's when state grant money will be available to replace it. Meanwhile, to re-hab the bridge would cost in the neighborhood of $400,000, a sum Great Barrington is reluctant to spend on a bridge that will be replaced anyway. So it will be pedestrians only until then.