Purdy Bridge
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The Purdy Bridge is a continuous reinforced concrete box girder bridge that spans Script error: No such module "convert"., with a central span of Script error: No such module "convert"., between Henderson Bay and Burley Lagoon. The bridge connects Purdy, Washington with the Purdy Sand Spit Park and Wauna, Washington.
Purdy Bridge was completed on September 29, 1937,[1] at a cost of $62,000, from a design by Homer M. Hadley. It was the first bridge in the United States to utilize a reinforced-concrete box girder design and it was the longest continuous box girder bridge in the United States at the time.[2][3]
The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
See also
- List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Washington (state)
- List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
- List of Registered Historic Places in Washington
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- Bridges completed in 1936
- Historic American Engineering Record in Washington (state)
- National Register of Historic Places in Pierce County, Washington
- Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
- Bridges in Pierce County, Washington
- Concrete bridges in the United States
- Box girder bridges in the United States