Butts Bridge

	Butts Bridge
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Butts Bridge
Location	Butts Bridge Road over Quinebaug R., Canterbury, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°39′5″N 71°58′15″W / 41.65139°N 71.97083°W
Area	0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built	1936
Architect	Connecticut State Highway Dept.
Architectural style	Parker through truss
NRHP reference No.	10000272
Added to NRHP	May 24, 2010

The Butts Bridge carries Butts Bridge Road (

Parker truss, built in 1937, late in the state's regular use of steel truss bridge designs. The bridge is also known as Bridge No. 1649 and carries an average of 2,300 vehicles per day as of 2011. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.^[1]

Description and history

The Butts Bridge is located in a rural setting of southeastern Canterbury, spanning the Quinebaug River in a roughly east–west orientation. The bridge is a single-span steel

Parker truss design that typifies truss bridges of the early automotive age. It is 231 feet 6 inches (70.56 m) long, and is 31 feet (9.4 m) between the centers of the trusses. The trusses are mounted on concrete abutments, and the roadway is supported by concrete decking.^[2]

The bridge is at least the fourth to stand in this general area, which has been on the route of a road between

major flooding in 1936

.

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Connecticut Route 668
Quinebaug River from Butts Bridge

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Notice of public meeting re rehabilitation of Bridge No. 0164". Connecticut Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
^ "NRHP nomination for Butts Bridge". National Archive. Retrieved 2019-08-30.

External links

Connecticut Department of Transportation, News Release: Public Information Meeting - Rehabilitation of Bridge No. 01649, October 15, 2008

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] "Notice of public meeting re rehabilitation of Bridge No. 0164". Connecticut Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2015-01-07.

[NRHP-3] "NRHP nomination for Butts Bridge". National Archive. Retrieved 2019-08-30.

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