Rating:
3 votes
Broad Street Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Concrete pony truss bridge over Comanche Creek on Broad Street in Mason
- Location
- Mason, Mason County, Texas
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- Future prospects
- Programmed to be bypassed and preserved for pedestrian use with contract to be let August 2015.
- History
- Built 1918
- Builder
- - Alamo Construction Co. of San Antonio, Texas
- Design
- Concrete howe pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 49.9 ft.
Total length: 102.0 ft.
Deck width: 17.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +30.75268, -99.23136 (decimal degrees)
30°45'10" N, 99°13'53" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/477855/3402216 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Purdy Hill
- Inventory numbers
- TXNBI 141570B00300001 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 36691 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 28, 2022: New photos from Mark Gonzalez
- December 22, 2018: Updated by Tony Dillon: Updated status
- December 15, 2016: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- January 7, 2015: Updated by Nathan Holth: Bridge to be bypassed.
- February 2, 2012: Updated by W Schutz: Noted two simple truss spans
- June 10, 2008: New photos from Historic American Engineering Record
Sources
- Historic American Engineering Record
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Nathan Holth
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Mark Gonzalez - markgonzalez0619 [at] gmail [dot] com
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Was open to cars on previous visits to mason but we found it blocked and pedestrian only as of November 2018