Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Skew Arch Bridge, North Sixth Street at Woodward Street, Reading, Berks County, PA
Summary
See also HABS PA-1025 for additional documentation. Includes photographs.
See also HAER PA-117 for additional documentation.
Significance: This structure's three spans are extremely rare examples of true skew arches, in which the courses of stone are laid on helicoidal curves. Because the complex geometry is difficult to design and construct, only a few such bridges exist in the U.S. The Skew Arch Bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Survey number: HAER PA-116
Building/structure dates: 1855-1857 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73001590
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Osborne, Richard B
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Consolidated Rail Corporation
Norfolk Southern Railroad
Lebanon Valley Railroad
DeLony, Eric N, project manager
Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, sponsor
Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), sponsor
Spivey, Justin M, historian
Barrett, William Edmund, photographer
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Location
Reading (Pa.), 40.34271, -75.92766
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html