Penn Street Bridge (original) (raw)
The Penn Street Bridge, also known as the Penn Street Viaduct, is a historic bridge crossing the Schuylkill River into Reading, Pennsylvania, the largest city in Berks County and fourth-largest city in the state. The bridge is considered to be the primary gateway to downtown Reading, leading directly onto Penn Street, the main thoroughfare of the city. The opposite end of the bridge leads into the borough of West Reading and connects with an interchange onto the West Shore Bypass section of U.S. Route 422. As a result of the bridge's prominent location, it has an average daily traffic volume of nearly 34,000. Constructed in 1913, the bridge is one of the oldest examples in the region of an open-spandrel concrete arch bridge, and it retains good historic integrity including original ornate
| Property | Value |
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| dbo:Infrastructure/length | 0.4075176 (dbd:kilometre) |
| dbo:abstract | The Penn Street Bridge, also known as the Penn Street Viaduct, is a historic bridge crossing the Schuylkill River into Reading, Pennsylvania, the largest city in Berks County and fourth-largest city in the state. The bridge is considered to be the primary gateway to downtown Reading, leading directly onto Penn Street, the main thoroughfare of the city. The opposite end of the bridge leads into the borough of West Reading and connects with an interchange onto the West Shore Bypass section of U.S. Route 422. As a result of the bridge's prominent location, it has an average daily traffic volume of nearly 34,000. Constructed in 1913, the bridge is one of the oldest examples in the region of an open-spandrel concrete arch bridge, and it retains good historic integrity including original ornate concrete railings; it was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 and reevaluated in 2019. (en) |
| dbo:bridgeCarries | 4 lanes of Penn Street |
| dbo:crosses | dbr:Schuylkill_River |
| dbo:height | 10.972800 (xsd:double) |
| dbo:length | 407.517600 (xsd:double) |
| dbo:locatedInArea | dbr:Reading,_Pennsylvania |
| dbo:mainspan | 33.528000 (xsd:double) |
| dbo:openingDate | 1913-11-14 (xsd:date) |
| dbo:openingYear | 1913-01-01 (xsd:gYear) |
| dbo:vehiclesPerDay | 34000 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:width | 24.384000 (xsd:double) |
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| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1120698531 (xsd:integer) |
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| dbp:architect | Benjamin Herman Davis (en) |
| dbp:bridgeName | Penn Street Bridge (en) |
| dbp:builder | L. H. Focht & Son (en) |
| dbp:carries | 4 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:crosses | dbr:Schuylkill_River |
| dbp:design | Open-spandrel concrete arch (en) |
| dbp:height | 36.0 (dbd:foot) |
| dbp:length | 1337.0 (dbd:foot) |
| dbp:locale | dbr:Reading,_Pennsylvania |
| dbp:mainspan | 110.0 (dbd:foot) |
| dbp:maintained | dbr:Pennsylvania_Department_of_Transportation |
| dbp:mapframe | no (en) |
| dbp:numberSpans | 5 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:open | 1913-11-14 (xsd:date) |
| dbp:otherName | Penn Street Viaduct (en) "Gateway to Reading" (en) |
| dbp:traffic | 34000 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:width | 80.0 (dbd:foot) |
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| dct:subject | dbc:Bridges_in_Pennsylvania |
| georss:point | 40.335277777777776 -75.93666666666667 |
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| rdfs:comment | The Penn Street Bridge, also known as the Penn Street Viaduct, is a historic bridge crossing the Schuylkill River into Reading, Pennsylvania, the largest city in Berks County and fourth-largest city in the state. The bridge is considered to be the primary gateway to downtown Reading, leading directly onto Penn Street, the main thoroughfare of the city. The opposite end of the bridge leads into the borough of West Reading and connects with an interchange onto the West Shore Bypass section of U.S. Route 422. As a result of the bridge's prominent location, it has an average daily traffic volume of nearly 34,000. Constructed in 1913, the bridge is one of the oldest examples in the region of an open-spandrel concrete arch bridge, and it retains good historic integrity including original ornate (en) |
| rdfs:label | Penn Street Bridge (en) |
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| geo:long | -75.936668 (xsd:float) |
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| foaf:name | Penn Street Bridge (en) |
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