{"nrhp_refnum":"88000794","name":"S Bridge","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"LR 06024 over Tulpehocken Creek","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sheridan","county":"Berks County","state":"PA","lat":40.37363343800007,"lon":-76.21833818199997,"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 three-span stone arch highway bridge carrying Lower Rock Route 06024 (Crossing L.R. 06024) over Tulpehocken Creek in Marion Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The form dates it to 1919 based on PennDOT records.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the bridge is a well-preserved example of a return to earlier 19th-century bridge design, using rubble masonry and three fairly short spans across a wide stream bed. Although built in the twentieth century, it imitates a nineteenth-century Pennsylvania stone highway bridge type, which the nomination describes as unusual for its date. It is presented as illustrating a continuation of a three-century bridge-building tradition. The area of significance is engineering.","narrative":"Three-span stone arch bridge over Tulpehocken Creek in Marion Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, carrying a rural county road. Its overall length is 230 feet, with three main spans of 22 feet each. The superstructure and substructure are built of rubble masonry, with rough-pointed stone voussoirs and intrados, and a jagged stone-topped parapet. The bridge was recorded as dating from 1919, according to PennDOT records. Its designers and builders are unknown. It is significant for engineering. The structure reproduces the form of nineteenth-century Pennsylvania stone highway bridges in both its site layout and its construction, even though it was built in the twentieth century. Its three short spans over a wide stream bed reflect earlier practice, before longer spans became common in the later nineteenth century. The form records the bridge as unaltered, and it is a rare twentieth-century example of this older bridge type.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Vehicular use, unaltered according to the integrity check on the form.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:35.959117-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88000794.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000794/01c37a9e7d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000794/01c37a9e7d-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Historic American Engineering Record","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_Bridge_Womelsdorf,_Pennsylvania.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Historic American Engineering Record</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_Bridge_Womelsdorf,_Pennsylvania.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"85000672","name":"Tulpehocken Creek Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/tulpehocken-creek-historic-district-85000672/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992360","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_Bridge_(Womelsdorf,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7395341"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/berks-county/s-bridge-88000794/"}