File:Avery-Bartholomew Patent Railroad Iron Bridge, Town park south of Route 222, west of Owasco Inlet (moved from Elm Street Extension spanning Fall Creek, Nubia, NY), HAER NY,55-GRO,1- (sheet 3 of 3).tif

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HAER NY,55-GRO,1- (sheet 3 of 3) - Avery-Bartholomew Patent Railroad Iron Bridge, Town park south of Route 222, west of Owasco Inlet (moved from Elm Street Extension spanning Fall Creek, Nubia, NY), Groton, Tompkins County, NY
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HAER NY,55-GRO,1- (sheet 3 of 3) - Avery-Bartholomew Patent Railroad Iron Bridge, Town park south of Route 222, west of Owasco Inlet (moved from Elm Street Extension spanning Fall Creek, Nubia, NY), Groton, Tompkins County, NY
Depicted place New York; Tompkins County; Groton
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER NY,55-GRO,1- (sheet 3 of 3)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The Avery-Bartholomew Patent Railroad Iron Bridge in Groton, New York, is a single-span tied arch iron bridge incorporating railroad rails for its upper and lower chords. The bridge is one of a very small number of patented iron bridges that survive anywhere, and one of the most unusual examples of its kind. It is also the only extant example of a bridge based on the patents of Oliver Avery, Jr. and Caleb Bartholomew, and exemplifies the technological advances in American metal truss bridge designs during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Though the iron-rail truss design was short-lived and rapidly succeeded by other iron and then steel designs, it was very much a part of the rapid changes in building technology following the Civil War. ...
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N380
  • Survey number: HAER NY-277
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ny1760.sheet.00003a
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Object location42° 35′ 16.01″ N, 76° 22′ 01.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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