Mount Hope Bridge
Bristol County, Rhode Island
and Newport County, Rhode Island
Facts
- Overview
- Suspension bridge over Mount Hope Bay on RI 114 in Bristol
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1929; rehabilitated 1985
- Design
- Wire suspension
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 1,200.2 ft.
Total length: 5,050.1 ft.
Deck width: 26.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 1976
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.64000, -71.25833 (decimal degrees)
41°38'24" N, 71°15'30" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 19/311913/4612270 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Bristol
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 76000038 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 31889 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 04/1998)
- Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 47.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 1999)
- 15,885
Comments
Great Story! Many people read this site and you woudn't know it...but a story like yours is a great one.
I live near this bridge, actually about 30 seconds from where the photo was taken. I love this bridge. When the state was replacing the cabling in 2000 they announced that the decorative lights were not going to be replaced. I and many others wrote letters to newspapers, historic preservation agencies, and government agencies.
We were successful in having new lights installed. The tradition had been that the lights were lit only on national holidays. When I came back from NYC in October 2001 (I had been working the Red Cross response to 9/11) the lights were on at night and have been ever since.
Those lights lifted my spirit that night and have ever since!