Cold Spring Bridge is a historic concrete open-spandrel arch bridge located at Whitehall Township and North Whitehall Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The bridge was built in 1930, and is a 228-foot-long (69 m) bridge, with a single 160-foot-long (49 m) arch consisting of six symmetrically placed spandrel arches.
Cold Spring Bridge | |
Location | 2nd Street over Spring Creek, Whitehall Township and North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 40°42′3″N 75°31′1″W / 40.70083°N 75.51694°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1930 |
Built by | Dawes & Norris |
Architectural style | Open-spandrel arch |
MPS | Highway Bridges Owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation TR |
NRHP reference No. | 88000874[1] |
Added to NRHP | June 22, 1988 |
The bridge crosses Spring Creek.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]
In 2014, the bridge was considered to be structurally deficient and scheduled to be replaced by a three span bulb T-beam bridge costing $3.8 million. It had an average daily traffic volume of 2,461 vehicles.[3][4]