File:View looking south. - Main Street Bridge, Main Street (State Route 138) over New Haven Railroad, West Kingston, Washington County, RI HAER RI,5-KINGS,3-2.tif

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View looking south. - Main Street Bridge, Main Street (State Route 138) over New Haven Railroad, West Kingston, Washington County, RI
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Brewster, Robert, creator
Title
View looking south. - Main Street Bridge, Main Street (State Route 138) over New Haven Railroad, West Kingston, Washington County, RI
Description
Rhode Island Board of Public Roads; Hussey, Clarence L; Bethlehem Steel Company; Public Archeology Laboratory, Incorporated, contractor; Meyer, Lauren, transmitter; Brewster, Robert, photographer; Adams, Virginia H, historian; Kierstead, Matthew A, historian
Depicted place Rhode Island; Washington County; West Kingston
Date 1996
date QS:P571,+1996-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER RI,5-KINGS,3-2
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  • Significance: The Main Street Bridge is significant as an example of the standardized concrete bridge design and replacement program initiated by Rhode Island Bridge Engineer Clarence L. Hussey during the 1920s, and is also significant as a well-preserved example of early twentieth-century hybrid bridge construction. The Main Street Bridge is also evidence of the creation of, and improvements to, Rhode Island's state highway transportation system, as well as railroad-related highway improvements, brought about by the emergence of the automobile and the resultant growth of the urban environment.
  • Survey number: HAER RI-47
  • Building/structure dates: 1936 Initial Construction
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