{"nrhp_refnum":"80001359","name":"Seville Bridge","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Spans Spoon River in Seville","address_restricted":false,"city":"Seville","county":"Fulton County","state":"IL","lat":40.48566453700005,"lon":-90.34293193499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-span Parker through truss bridge of steel and iron, built about 1880 near the former railroad town of Seville in Harris Township, Fulton County, Illinois. It rests on stone abutments and has a wooden deck.","why_significant":"The bridge is part of a thematic group of metal highway bridges in Fulton County built between about 1883 and 1915. The group shows how the county's road system improved as iron and steel truss bridges replaced fords and ferries, and it records changes in truss design, including Pratt and Parker through trusses. This bridge was built as the main road from Seville to Smithfield.","narrative":"Near the vanished railroad town of Seville in Harris Township, Fulton County, Illinois, a single-span Parker through truss bridge dating to about 1880 carries the old main road between Seville and Smithfield. Built of steel and iron with pinned connections, it rests on stone abutments, has a wooden deck, and gained concrete approaches in 1917. Its bottom chord is about 179 feet long and its height is roughly 19 feet. The bridge is now described as closed. Seville began as a railroad town and no longer exists, which makes the crossing a surviving link to that settlement. The bridge was listed as one of a thematic group of metal highway bridges in Fulton County, built between about 1883 and 1915. Together they show how the county's roads improved as iron and steel trusses replaced fords and ferries, and how truss design changed over about 35 years, especially in the Pratt and Parker types.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Parker through truss","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as a closed bridge; the thematic group is noted as generally in good condition.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.843803-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/8911/28891132/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/80001359.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001359/eefcc66cd7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001359/eefcc66cd7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jon Roanhaus","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seville_Bridge3_NRHP_80001359_Fulton_County,_IL.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jon Roanhaus</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seville_Bridge3_NRHP_80001359_Fulton_County,_IL.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891132","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seville_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7458060"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/fulton-county/seville-bridge-80001359/"}