Black Rock Bridge


Black Rock Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Black Rock Bridge, January 2010
Show map of Pennsylvania Show map of the US
Location	Pennsylvania Route 113 over the Schuylkill River, Phoenixville and Upper Providence Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°9′32″N 75°30′44″W / 40.15889°N 75.51222°W / 40.15889; -75.51222Coordinates: 40°9′32″N 75°30′44″W / 40.15889°N 75.51222°W / 40.15889; -75.51222
Area	less than one acre
Built	1927
Built by	Wagman, G.A.; Wagman, F.M.
Architectural style	Other, Multi-span spandrel arch
MPS	Highway Bridges Owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation TR
NRHP Reference #	88000735^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1988

Black Rock Bridge is a historic concrete arch bridge carrying Pennsylvania Route 113 across the Schuylkill River between Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and Upper Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It has five spans; three main spans are each 116 feet (35 m) long and flanked by two 103-foot-long (31 m) spans. The bridge was constructed in 1927, and features open-spandrel arches and solid concrete parapet walls.^[2]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). ARCH: Pennsylvania's Historic Architecture & Archaeology. Retrieved 2012-11-02. Note: This includes District 6-0 (November 1982). "Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form: Black Rock Bridge" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-10-08.

Crossings of the Schuylkill River

Upstream
Rail bridge

Black Rock Bridge

Downstream
Black Rock Dam

US National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania

Topics	Contributing property Keeper of the Register Historic district History of the National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Property types

Lists by county	Adams Allegheny Armstrong Beaver Bedford Berks Blair Bradford Bucks Butler Cambria Cameron Carbon Centre Chester East North South Clarion Clearfield Clinton Columbia Crawford Cumberland Dauphin Delaware Elk Erie Fayette Forest Franklin Fulton Greene Huntingdon Indiana Jefferson Juniata Lackawanna Lancaster Lawrence Lebanon Lehigh Luzerne Lycoming McKean Mercer Mifflin Monroe Montgomery Montour Northampton Northumberland Perry Philadelphia Pike Potter Schuylkill Snyder Somerset Sullivan Susquehanna Tioga Union Venango Warren Washington Wayne Westmoreland Wyoming York

Lists by city	Pittsburgh Lancaster Philadelphia Center City North Northeast Northwest South Southwest West

Other lists	European archaeological sites Native American archaeological sites Bridges (covered) National Historic Landmarks (Philadelphia)

Category NRHP portal

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/29/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.