{"nrhp_refnum":"88000786","name":"Bridge in Buckingham Township","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Forest Grove Rd. over Mill Creek","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wycombe","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.281504933000065,"lon":-75.02149307599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-06-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A multiple-span stone arch bridge over Mill Creek, crossing Forest Grove Road in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1905 and is owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation.","why_significant":"The nomination describes it as a representative example in Bucks County of an early twentieth-century multiple-span arch bridge built in the style of Pennsylvania's nineteenth-century stone highway bridges. Its multiple spans of moderate length and roughly squared stone construction recall Bucks County multi-span bridges of the mid-nineteenth century. It is described as a very well preserved example of this return to earlier bridge construction.","narrative":"Built in 1905 over Mill Creek in rural Buckingham Township, Bucks County, this stone arch bridge carries vehicles across Forest Grove Road. It has six spans in total measuring 104 feet overall: four main spans of 20 feet each and two secondary spans of 12 feet each. The superstructure and substructure are built of masonry, with random-coursed stone for the superstructure and coursed masonry for the piers. The bridge's design deliberately returned to the multiple-span, roughly squared stone construction common to Bucks County bridges of the mid-nineteenth century, rather than the newer metal and concrete forms of its own era. Its significance lies in its engineering value as a representative example of that earlier tradition, and it is regarded as very well preserved. The nominated boundary covers only the bridge superstructure and substructure, enclosed within the outside corners of its wing walls, on less than one acre.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"In use for vehicular traffic","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.570132-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88000786.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000786/ed19ee2bc0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000786/ed19ee2bc0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wycombe_Stone_Bridge,_Wycombe_PA_01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Shuvaev</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:Wycombe_Stone_Bridge,_Wycombe_PA_01.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"85000177","name":"Wycombe Village Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/wycombe-village-historic-district-85000177/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992456","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wycombe_Stone_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4966343"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/bridge-in-buckingham-township-88000786/"}