Cottonwood Creek Bridge (Colorado Springs, Colorado) Explained

Cottonwood Creek Bridge
Nrhp Type:nrhp
Designated Other1:Colorado
Designated Other1 Date:October 12, 2001[1]
Designated Other1 Number:5EP.972
Designated Other1 Num Position:both
Coordinates:38.9286°N -104.8097°W
Added:October 12, 2001
Refnum:01001104

The Cottonwood Creek Bridge is a bridge over Cottonwood Creek in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The structure is on the National Register of Historic Places.[2]

The bridge was completed on what was a major Colorado north–south road in 1923 and is one of the few long cantilevered, girder bridges in the state from the 1920s. It has a concrete deck and is made of four 53-foot spans. It is made with a "hammered concrete treatment on the spandrels and cast concrete balusters forming the guardrails."

Notes and References

  1. http://www.historycolorado.org/archaeologists/el-paso-county El Paso County - Colorado State Register of Historic Properties
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places listing of El Paso County, Colorado . American Dreams, Inc. . June 4, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130601074008/http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/CO/El%2BPaso/state.html . June 1, 2013 .