National Register of Historic Places
Atkinson Road Bridge
Solebury Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
The record
- Listed
- March 20, 2002
- Type
- Structure
- Address
- Atkinson Rd. and Pidcock's Creek, Solebury Twp
- County
- Bucks
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Period of significance
- 1850 to 1874
- Contributing resources
- 1 structure
- Coordinates
- 40.32727, -74.97842
- Reference number
- 02000222
The story
Written by AI from this property's National Register nomination and the record above; every sentence is checked against its sources before it appears here. Corrections: privacy@treealive.com
The Atkinson Road Bridge is a stone-arch bridge with a three-arch span, carrying Atkinson Road over Pidcock's Creek in Solebury Township, Bucks County, and it was built in 1873. It was listed in the National Register in 2002. The nomination names stone mason James Ricard and contractor Mathew Gibney as the bridge's architect and builder.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criterion C, with local-level significance in engineering; its period of significance is 1873, reflecting the bridge's construction that year.
Physical character
The bridge is built of native fieldstone laid in random rubble construction, with stone foundations and stone walls. Semicircular arches rise on cut-stone voussoirs, and camelback walls reach a high arch. Wing walls and parapets flank the bridge, and a white marble date stone is set into it. Concrete coping was added around 1875, and the roadway surface is asphalt and concrete.
Historical context
A petition for the bridge's construction was presented to the Court of Sessions in 1870. The matter reentered the court's records in 1872, and in 1873 the court awarded the construction contract at a cost of $1,719. Contractors reported the bridge complete in 1873, and the court announced its final inspection in 1874.