Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over abandoned railroad on Oliver Avenue in Middletown
- Location
- Orange County, New York
- Status
- Closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1895 by the Havan Bridge Works; rehabilitated 1970
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 105.0 ft.
Total length: 107.0 ft.
Deck width: 18.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.8 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.45381, -74.43281 (decimal degrees)
41°27'14" N, 74°25'58" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/547373/4589291 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Middletown
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 84002882 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 26567 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 12/1999)
- Deck condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 14.4 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 1998)
- 1,319
Comments
Oliver Avenue Bridge
This bridge no longer exists - -I have heard from friends it was extensively photographed by the city of middletown prior to demolishion but I do not know where the pictures are or how to get them. If you look on google maps, arial image, you can see the site of where the bridge was, is under construction.