{"nrhp_refnum":"76002052","name":"Regency Suspension Bridge","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"0.75 mi. S of Regency at Colorado River","address_restricted":false,"city":"Regency","county":"Mills County","state":"TX","lat":31.410467052000058,"lon":-98.84620649299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 340-foot single-span suspension bridge over the Colorado River about 3/4 mile south of Regency, on the Mills and San Saba county line in Texas. It was built in 1939 by the Austin Bridge Company of Dallas.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the bridge is one of the last suspension bridges still in use in Texas. It was nominated despite being under 50 years old because it was likely to be destroyed soon. It also restored a transportation link used to ship cotton and other farm products after a 1938 flood destroyed the earlier bridge.","narrative":"A 1938 flood on the Colorado River destroyed the heavily used bridge at Regency, Texas. Mills and San Saba counties jointly hired the Austin Bridge Company of Dallas to replace it with a suspension bridge, built between February and October 1939. The span measures 340 feet between concrete and steel towers rising about 30 feet above the deck. Two cables of 475 strands of galvanized wire are anchored in concrete, and the lumber flooring hangs from them on turnbuckles. Work was done largely by hand with light equipment, using local labor on 60-hour weeks. The bridge reopened the link between San Saba and Brownwood, a route used to ship cotton and other farm products. It was nominated as one of the last suspension bridges still in use in Texas, even though it was younger than the usual age threshold, because it was thought likely to be destroyed. It has needed little maintenance, though painting and floor repair were noted.","period_of_significance":"February - October 1939","architect_builder":"Austin Bridge Co., Dallas, TX","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a bridge owned jointly by Mills and San Saba counties; the form says it needs painting and floor repair but remains sound.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.684217-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/54/9730/40973054/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/76002052.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002052/d8030310eb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002052/d8030310eb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.5","author":"Aren Cambre","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Regency_Bridge_Side_View.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Aren Cambre</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Regency_Bridge_Side_View.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973054","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regency_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7307997"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/mills-county/regency-suspension-bridge-76002052/"}