Purdy Bridge

Infobox_nrhp | name =Purdy Bridge
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caption =
location= Purdy, Washington
lat_degrees = 47
lat_minutes = 23
lat_seconds = 02
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 122
long_minutes = 37
long_seconds = 41
long_direction = W
locmapin = Washington
area =
built =1936
architect= Craft,W.H.
architecture= Other
added = July 16, 1982
governing_body = State
mpsub=Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
refnum=82004274cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] The Purdy Bridge is a continuous hollow-box girder bridge that spans convert|550|ft|m| over Henderson Bay, connecting Purdy, Washington, USA with the Purdy Sand Spit Park. It was built in 1936, and at the time was the longest continuous box girder bridge in the US, at a cost of $62,000 from a design by Homer M. Hadley. [harvnb|Holstine|2005|p=219-220]

The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

ee also

List of Registered Historic Places in Washington

References

ources

* Holstine, Craig; Hobbs, Richard (2005). "Spanning Washington: Historic Highway Bridges of the Evergreen State", Washington State University Press, ISBN 0874222818.