Trisha Shetty (Editor)

Glen Falls Bridge

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Built
  
1886

Opened
  
1886

Body of water
  
Moosup River

NRHP Reference #
  
99000408

Area
  
3,642 m²

Added to NRHP
  
1 April 1999

Glen Falls Bridge

Location
  
Brunswick Ave. over Moosup River, Plainfield, Connecticut

Architect
  
Berlin Iron Bridge Company

Architectural style
  
Lenticular through Truss

The Glen Falls Bridge is a historic bridge that formerly carried Brunswick Avenue over the Moosup River in Plainfield, Connecticut. It is a single-span wrought iron lenticular pony truss bridge, manufacted by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company in 1886. It is 124 feet (38 m) long, and rests on 20th-century reinforced concrete abutments. When built, the road it was on was the main east-west route through the area; it was bypassed by the present alignment of Connecticut Route 14 in 1940. It is closed to both vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

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

References

Glen Falls Bridge Wikipedia