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Double Span Metal Pratt Truss Bridge

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architectural style
  
Truss Bridge

Opened
  
1877

Added to NRHP
  
20 May 1983

Built
  
1877

MPS
  
Keeseville Village MRA

Body of water
  
Ausable River

Double-Span Metal Pratt Truss Bridge

Location
  
AuSable St., Keeseville, New York

Architect
  
Law, William H.; Murray Dougal & Company

Similar
  
Adirondack Mountains, Barclays Center, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Hotel Pennsylvania, Madison Square Garden

Double-Span Metal Pratt Truss Bridge is a historic Pratt truss bridge over the Ausable River at Keeseville in Clinton County and Essex County, New York. It was built in 1877 by the Murray Dougal & Company of Milton, Pennsylvania. It is 214 feet in length and 16 feet wide. It consists of two 107 foot spans supported by a pier at mid-stream. It is the oldest extant example of a metal Pratt truss bridge in New York State.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

References

Double-Span Metal Pratt Truss Bridge Wikipedia