{"nrhp_refnum":"88000828","name":"Bridge in City of Wilkes-Barre","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"LR 5 over Mill Creek","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wilkes-Barre","county":"Luzerne County","state":"PA","lat":41.26016751100008,"lon":-75.86686737999997,"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 stone-arch highway bridge carrying LR 5 over Mill Creek in the City of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in a business district. It is a single 39-foot span of rough-squared coursed stone with rock-faced ashlar voussoirs.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the bridge is significant for engineering. Its single span of about 39 feet is described as exceptionally high for the group, springing from massive abutments, which the nomination says required special engineering to carry heavy loads. It is one of the bridges in the multiple-resource group of Commonwealth-owned highway bridges.","narrative":"A single-span stone arch bridge over Mill Creek on LR 5 in the City of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, located in the business district. Its arch is built of roughly squared coursed stone with voussoirs of rock-faced ashlar, and stone projections at the springline mark where the centering was attached during construction. The deck has simple iron railings on its parapet walls. The span measures 39 feet over the creek, and the bridge's nominated area is a rectangle of about 75 by 25 feet, including only the superstructure and substructure. The span rises from massive abutments, a feature the nomination describes as requiring exceptional engineering attention to carry heavy loads. Because of this structural approach and its span length relative to other bridges in its group, it was listed for its engineering significance. The construction date is not known from local records; state staff provided an approximate range of 1850 to 1900 at the time of listing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"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 17:11:37.688821-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88000828.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000828/864f4932cd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000828/864f4932cd-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jet Lowe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bridge_in_City_of_Wilkes-Barre.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jet Lowe</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bridge_in_City_of_Wilkes-Barre.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993342","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_in_City_of_Wilkes-Barre","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4966344"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/luzerne-county/bridge-in-city-of-wilkes-barre-88000828/"}