Bridge in Buckingham Township
Why it's listed
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.
Significance in brief: 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.
Machine-generated summary. This summary was generated by a language model from the official nomination document and has not been reviewed line by line by an editor. It may contain errors. Check the source document before relying on any detail. Source: nomination document (PDF) · National Archives catalog entry. NRHP reference 88000786, listed June 22, 1988. Summary generated October 2026 (model claude-haiku-5-5, prompt v1.1-2026-10-29, confidence medium).
Key facts
| Address | Forest Grove Rd. over Mill Creek, Wycombe |
|---|---|
| County | Bucks County |
| Listed | June 22, 1988 |
| Reference number | 88000786 |
| Resource type | Structure |
| Areas of significance | Engineering |
| Level of significance | State |
| Status (as stated in the nomination) | In use for vehicular traffic |
| Acreage | 0.9 |
| Within district | Wycombe Village Historic District |
| Coordinates | 40.28150, -75.02149 (NPS GIS) |
What listing means for this property
For a publicly owned building or structure, listing mainly matters when federal funds, permits or licences are involved: projects then go through Section 106 review so effects on the property are considered. Listing also strengthens applications for preservation grants and, for leased income-producing uses, can enable the federal rehabilitation tax credit.
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm with your State Historic Preservation Office or a qualified adviser.
Sources and further reading
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places database (snapshot May 2026), reference 88000786.
- Nomination form (PDF, National Archives) — catalog entry
- Wikipedia article (used for cross-checking only; text not reproduced here)
- Wikidata Q4966343
- This listing as JSON
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