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Illinois River Bridge (Siloam Springs, Arkansas)

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Area
  
less than one acre

MPS
  
Benton County MRA

Opened
  
1922

Built
  
1922

NRHP Reference #
  
87002420

Added to NRHP
  
28 January 1988

Illinois River Bridge (Siloam Springs, Arkansas)

Location
  
6 mi. E of Siloam Springs, Siloam Springs, Arkansas

Similar
  
Ozark Folk Center, Mount Magazine, Little Rock Zoo

The Illinois River Bridge, also known as the Midway Bridge, is a historic concrete arch bridge near Siloam Springs, Arkansas. It is located in Ozark National Forest, about 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Siloam Springs, at the end of Chambers Springs Road (which it formerly carried) south of United States Route 412. The bridge has two elliptical arch spans, each spanning 68 feet (21 m), with a total structure length of 139 feet (42 m). Built in 1922 by the Luten Bridge Company of Knoxville, Tennessee, it is one of a modest number of bridges of this once-popular and common type remaining in the state.

The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It has also been documented in a Historic American Engineering Record report.

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Illinois River Bridge (Siloam Springs, Arkansas) Wikipedia