Old Boardman Bridge

	Boardman's Bridge
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Across the Housatonic River near Boardman Rd., New Milford, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°35′36″N 73°27′2″W / 41.59333°N 73.45056°W
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1888
Built by	Berlin Iron Bridge Co.; Douglas & Jarvis
Architectural style	Lenticular truss
NRHP reference No.	76001983
Added to NRHP	May 13, 1976

Boardman's Bridge is a historic lenticular truss bridge, which formerly carried Boardman Rd across the Housatonic River in New Milford, Connecticut. Built in 1888 out of wrought iron, it is one of the state's few surviving examples of this bridge type. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.^[1] The bridge is closed to all forms of access.

Description and history

Boardman's Bridge is located in central western New Milford, northeast of the junction of United States Route 7 and Boardman's Road. It spans the Housatonic River just north (upriver) of the bridge carrying Boardman's Road across the river. There are small public parks at each end of the bridge, which is closed to all access. It is a lenticular truss structure built out of wrought iron, and is 190 feet (58 m) long, with a roadway width of 15 feet 6 inches (4.72 m). It passes about 20 feet (6.1 m) over the typical water level of the river. The trusses are set on abutments of rough-cut stone, with box girder columns supporting the ends of the trusses. Truss joints are pinned together. and there are numerous diagonal and cross-bracing elements of narrower gauge than the main chords. The deck is supported by I-bars descending from the trusses at 12 points, originally consisting of corrugated metal sheets laid on I-beams.^[2]

The bridge was built in 1888 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, during a period when iron was supplanting wood as a preferred bridge-building material, but had not yet itself been replaced by steel.^[2] The bridge was closed in 1985.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Bruce Clouette (1975). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Boardman's Bridge" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-21. Accompanying photos

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[NRHP-2] Bruce Clouette (1975). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Boardman's Bridge" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-21. Accompanying photos

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