{"nrhp_refnum":"88000788","name":"Dauberville Bridge","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Belleman's Church Rd. over Schuylkill River","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dauberville","county":"Berks County","state":"PA","lat":40.45701186500003,"lon":-75.97652941199993,"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 four-span concrete arch bridge carrying Belleman's Church Road over the Schuylkill River in Center Township, near the rural village of Dauberville in Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1908.","why_significant":"The nomination describes it as a good example of an early twentieth century multiple-span concrete arch bridge and a skillfully designed example of an early multiple arch concrete bridge. Its graceful humpback profile and elliptical arches are cited as showing the design care taken with early concrete arch bridges. The solid parapets with simple scored lines are noted as typical of the Berks County concrete arches in the group.","narrative":"Built in 1908 by the contractors L. H. Focht & Sons to a design by engineer N. M. Davis, the Dauberville Bridge is a concrete arch bridge carrying Belleman's Church Road across the Schuylkill River in Center Township, Berks County. It has four elliptical arches, each spanning 75 feet, for an overall length of 408 feet. The bridge has a humpbacked profile, and its solid parapets are decorated with simple scored lines and recessed panels. Its piers are concrete and its arches are smooth concrete. It is regarded as a skillfully designed example of an early multiple-span concrete arch bridge. Its engineering is the basis for its listing, and it is seen as a representative of the early use of concrete arches in the county. The bridge was used for vehicles, and its original design survives.","period_of_significance":"1908","architect_builder":"N. M. Davis (engineer); L. H. Focht & Sons (contractors)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:38.094805-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88000788.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000788/9d42e065f7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000788/9d42e065f7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Robert C. Shelley, Photographer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dauberville_Bridge,_Spanning_Schuykill_River_on_Belleman%27s_Church_Road,_Dauberville_vicinity_(Berks_County,_Pennsylvania).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert C. Shelley, Photographer</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dauberville_Bridge,_Spanning_Schuykill_River_on_Belleman%27s_Church_Road,_Dauberville_vicinity_(Berks_County,_Pennsylvania).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992352","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dauberville_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5227822"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/berks-county/dauberville-bridge-88000788/"}