Bridge No: 4220017640900

Asset ID: 116

County: Spartanburg

Bridge Name:

Facility Carried: US 176 WB (Old Asheville Highway)

Feature Intersected: Lawsons Fork Creek

Year Built: 1920

Year Reconstructed:

Main Structure Type: Deck arch

Design:

Main Material: Reinforced Concrete

Railing Type: Paneled concrete parapets

Number of Main Spans: 3

Number of Approach Spans:

Approach Type:

Structure Length: 93 feet

Structure Width: 29 feet

Setting: The bridge carries the two westbound lanes of US 176 over a stream in a setting with scattered residential and strip commercial development.The parallel bridge (4220017620900) was built in the early 1970s when the highway was dualized. The bridge is overgrown in the warm weather.

The 3 span, 93'-long, reinforced concrete deck arch bridge built in 1920 has incised panel concrete parapets, cantilevered deck section with brackets, and concrete abutments.It is unclear from the available inspection data whether the cantilevered deck section and parapets are original or a later alteration to widen the bridge.The 26'-wide deck width would have been uncommonly wide for a rural bridge in 1920.The parapets, however, are the same paneled design usually associated with Luten arches, and the 1920 builder's plaque is set into the roadway face of at least one of the parapets.

The 1920 reinforced concrete arch bridge built by the Luten Bridge Company was determined eligible in the 1991 SCDOT Bridge Survey. The setting has changed, but the bridge retains the other aspects of integrity.