Rating:
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4th Street Bridge

Marion County, West Virginia

Photos 

East elevation

Taken from Benoni Avenue

Photo taken by Andrew Goodrich in 2014

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BH Photo #323183

Map 

Street View 

Description 

This bridge is a contributing resource to a Historic District

Facts 

Overview
Concrete cantilevered bridge over Benoni Ave & Coal Run on Fourth Street
Location
Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
Built 1912; altered 1940?; replaced 2015
Builder
- Layton F. Smith of Baltimore, Maryland
Design
Concrete rigid frame
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 60.0 ft.
Total length: 251.0 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 2001
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.48151, -80.15036   (decimal degrees)
39°28'53" N, 80°09'01" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/573071/4370556 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Fairmont West
Average daily traffic (as of 2013)
6,000
Inventory numbers
NRHP 01001330 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 45506 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of February 2013)
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 2 (out of 100)
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Categories 

Balustrade railing (74)
Built 1912 (843)
Built during 1910s (9,736)
Cantilevered (307)
Fairmont, West Virginia (8)
Have street view (27,279)
Layton F. Smith (2)
Lost (25,668)
Lost 2015 (369)
 Lost during 2010s (3,397)
Marion County, West Virginia (55)
NR-listed (2,974)
Owned by city (5,608)
Replaced by new bridge (17,325)
Rigid frame (736)
Span length 50-75 feet (10,167)
Total length 250-500 feet (5,298)
West Virginia (1,501)

Update Log 

  • September 15, 2019: Updated by Mike Kerkau: Evidence suggests this dates as far back as 1912; was also replaced in 2015
  • January 31, 2018: Updated by John Marvig: Bridge has Been Replaced
  • April 20, 2015: New photos from Andrew Goodrich
  • September 29, 2013: New Street View added by Michael Miller
  • June 15, 2010: Added by Nathan Holth

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Comments 

4th Street Bridge
Posted September 15, 2019, by Mike Kerkau (mjkerkau [at] gmail [dot] com)

OK, there's a lot to digest here.

First off, I'm wondering where the circa 1920 date comes from. Because another source (link provided) offers 1912, and...it does offer up some reasonable evidence to support that. The same source describes this as a cantilevered rigid frame rather than a girder; it also gives the date of the District's NRHP listing. (As does Wiki, which also had its number.)

I'm estimating on the replacement year; the two Fourth Street entries on the NBI last appear there in 2012 - without checking, 2015 seems like a reasonable approximation. But those entries, when listed, gave a build year of 1940 - I'm wondering if instead, this bridge was altered that year. The balustrade railings detail - the ones that were the original - comes from old photographs seen in both links.