{"nrhp_refnum":"76001482","name":"Mill Creek Park Suspension Bridge","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Mill Creek Park","address_restricted":false,"city":"Youngstown","county":"Mahoning County","state":"OH","lat":41.073280444000034,"lon":-80.68888574999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Engineering","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A short steel suspension bridge carrying vehicles and pedestrians across Mill Creek in Mill Creek Park, Youngstown, Ohio. It was built in 1895 and fabricated by the Youngstown Bridge Company.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an early suspension bridge of uncommonly attractive design, combining functional lines with a late Victorian flair for ornament. It is also considered part of the progressive vision for the whole park, which was proposed by Volney Rogers to save the gorge from commercial development.","narrative":"Spanning Mill Creek in a narrow gorge in Youngstown's Mill Creek Park, this steel suspension bridge was erected in 1895 for vehicles and pedestrians. Four box-girder posts, each with a diagonal brace over the walkways, are capped by square turrets with pyramidal roofs and spires, giving a castellated look. An arched, ornamented girder links the posts across the roadway, and three suspension strands are anchored in large sandstone piers on the creek bank. A concrete pier was added under the center of the span in the twentieth century, yet the original structure remains intact. The Youngstown Bridge Company fabricated it; the engineer's name is not recorded. It was listed as an early suspension bridge of unusually attractive design, blending functional lines with late Victorian ornament, and as part of the vision behind a park that Volney Rogers proposed in 1891 to protect the gorge from commercial development.","period_of_significance":"1895","architect_builder":"Youngstown Bridge Company","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a bridge; a concrete pier was added beneath the center of the span in the twentieth century, but the original structure is described as intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.146125-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001482.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001482/d1ec358ad2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001482/d1ec358ad2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rg998","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mill_Creek_Park_Suspension_Bridge.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rg998</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mill_Creek_Park_Suspension_Bridge.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"05000178","name":"Mill Creek Park Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/mill-creek-park-historic-district-05000178/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990094","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_Creek_Park_Suspension_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6858293"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/mahoning-county/mill-creek-park-suspension-bridge-76001482/"}