NRHP: Lewis Bridge
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Lewis Bridge
NRHP Reference #: 92000774
NRHP Listing Date: 19920629
Location
13.6 mi NE of Springview, Keya Paha County, Nebraska
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Summary
In 1922 Keya Paha County Commissioners and representatives from Tripp County, South Dakota, awarded a contract to the Standard Bridge Company to erect a two-span pony truss structure, supported by a steel pile bent substructure. The Omaha-based bridge firm completed the Lewis Bridge near Springview by November 1922. The structure featured typical state-standard Pratt trusses, but onto these the bridge company overlaid a transverse joist girder floor system, a hallmark configuration of the Standard Bridge Company. A handful of these hybrid bridges remain in use today on Nebraska's secondary roads. The Lewis Bridge is technologically significant as one of the best preserved and thoroughly documented among these.
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