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To provide to the public historic bridge photos, documentation, consultation, and presentations in an attempt to share with others their beauty, history, and feasibility of preservation, while at the same time revealing the demolition risk that historic bridges face, while also providing consultation and restorative options for historic bridges.
HistoricBridges.org was founded in June of 2003 under the name Historic Bridges of Michigan and Elsewhere by Nathan Holth. It originally began as a website that provided photos and information for historic bridges in Michigan and nearby places, giving rise to its original name, Historic Bridges of Michigan and Elsewhere. From day one, Holth placed a priority on photo-documenting bridges as extensively as possible, including both overview photos and detail photos which show the structural design and condition of a bridge. Also from day one, there was been a commitment to the advocacy of historic bridges, through public awareness efforts and communication with elected officials. Holth later teamed up with Rick McOmber, another historic bridge enthusiast and photographer, to expand the geographic coverage of the website. Holth and McOmber combined the costs of travel to make longer out-of-state trips, and the site rapidly began to cover surrounding states. At the same time, Luke Gordon, a historic bridge enthusiast with a construction and engineering background, joined the team. Gordon brought the technical knowledge and hands-on experience needed to allow the website to move beyond documentation and also provide consultation and advising services for historic bridges. By 2009, amidst the growing coverage area and range of services offered, Historic Bridges of Michigan and Elsewhere was renamed to HistoricBridges.org. The name is simple, yet reflects not only a strong web presence, but a range of features and services that are not restricted to a geographic location. View the current number of Bridge Browser listings by location.
Today, HistoricBridges.org is the one-stop-resource for all types of historic bridges except wooden covered bridges. Wooden covered bridges are not a part of HistoricBridges.org because providing information and services on this well-known and extensively preserved bridge type would be redundant and a waste of HistoricBridges.org resources. HistoricBridges.org today remains a committed leader in providing information, photos, and consultation on metal and concrete historic bridges.
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I was born with a passion for historic bridges, because I took notice of old bridges even when I was only a few years old. The old Military Street Bridge's fancy railings and the arch shapes of the Griswold Road Bridge girders caught my eye before I even started kindergarten. At the same time in my life I always disliked modern bridges with New Jersey Barriers because I could never see anything over the ugly barriers! Later when I was in high school, the collapse of the Ford Road Bridge in 2002 caused me to develop my current passion and commitment to historic bridges. The loss of this bridge inspired me to to learn about, find, and photograph more old bridges that were still standing. As I learned more about how diverse truss bridges and historic bridges in general were, as well as how at-risk they were, my interest grew. I finally decided to combine my skills in basic web design and basic graphics design with my interest in bridges to create a website. Since that time, I have gained a high level of experience in the field of historic bridges acquired from visiting, studying, researching, and working in the field of historic bridges. Today, I have developed a strong passion for historic bridges. Historic bridges are my vocation and life's calling, and I will vigorously fight for and defend them. -Nathan Holth, 2010  Nathan Holth holds a Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Education with a Political Science Major and a History Minor. He has over ten years experience studying and working with historic bridges. Since 2008, he has volunteered and/or been hired by a several experts in the historic bridge field. He has done website work, photography, grant-seeking, and historic bridge inspection/documentation for Vern Mesler of VJM Metal Craftsman, a well known expert in historic bridge restoration. He has done historic bridge website work for Indiana bridge historian James Cooper. He has also been called upon by the Historic Bridge Foundation for a variety of tasks including historic bridge research and consultation, website work, and graphics design. Holth has personally visited and photo-documented thousands of old and historic bridges. He has given a number of historic bridge related presentations and speeches to groups of varying size, as well as speaking at historic bridge ribbon-cutting ceremonies. A member of the Society for Industrial Archaeology, he has presented at their annual conference. He has also worked with communities to save historic bridges by providing services such as assistance getting a bridge considered eligible or listed in the National Register of Historic Places, researching and assessing the history and design of a bridge, writing letters of support, and recommending experts for additional assistance and support. He has also participated as a consulting party for Section 106 Review of historic bridges in the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Maine, Indiana, Virginia, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Washington State. In 2011, Holth was commissioned to author a book titled Chicago's Bridges, which was published in 2012. Currently, 6033 of the bridges listed on the HistoricBridges.org Bridge Browser include photographs by Holth. |
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HistoricBridges.org maintains a close working relationship with the below entities, although they are not actually affiliated with HistoricBridges.org in any way.
Bach Steel, www.bachsteel.com
Historic Bridge Foundation, www.historicbridgefoundation.comMost of the photos on HistoricBridges.org were taken by team members Nathan Holth and Rick McOmber. Occasionally, photos from other photographers may be used. In particular however, the below individuals have provided a greater quantity and quality of photos than any other outside photographer. The work of these photographers appears on HistoricBridges.org in greater numbers because these individuals have distinguished themselves by the quality and thoroughness of their historic bridge photo-documentation. Their name and primary coverage area is shown below. Some of these contributors have also directly aided HistoricBridges.org photographers; this is also mentioned.
John Marvig (http://johnmarvigbridges.org/) (Photos for many railroad bridges, also has contributed extensive dates, dimensions, and history for many railroad bridges, the result of many hours of exhaustive archival research.
Dave Michaels (Photos primarily for the Ohio River valley and southeastern United States. Also provided transportation and lodging for Nathan Holth.)
Tom Winkle (Photos for Illinois River and Chicago Area and Photos From Perspective of a Boat. Also provided boat transportation for Nathan Holth)
James Rouse (Photos for Gogebic County, Michigan)
Randy Mulder (Photos for West and Northern Michigan)
Elaine Deutsch (Photos Primarily For Southeastern Pennsylvania)
Caleb Gordon (Ontario)
Marc Scotti (New York State Department of Transportation)
Most of the information appearing on HistoricBridges.org is derived from on-site visits to bridges combined with the expertise of the HistoricBridges.org team. In addition, the National Bridge Inventory, State Historic Bridge Inventories, National Register of Historic Places Nomination Forms, and Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation are all common sources for historic bridge information presented on HistoricBridges.org. Websites seen on our Links page also have served as sources. In addition, the below people have provided information and assistance.
C. Hanchey
Caleb Gordon
Daniel Alward
Dave Michaels
Ed Blasinski
Eric DeLony (Chief
Emeritus, Historic American Engineering Record)
Elaine Deutsch
Frank J. Hatfield (Ph.D.,
P.E.. Emeritus Professor)
Ian Graham
James Baughn (
www.bridgehunter.com )
James
Stewart
James Cooper (
www.indianahistoricbridges.com )
Jason Holloway
Kitty Henderson (Historic
Bridge Foundation)
Lê Thị Dung
Lloyd Baldwin (Michigan Department of Transportation
Historian)
Michael Clark (St. Clair County Road Commission County Highway Engineer)
Marc Scotti (New York State Department of Transportation)
Nate
Clark
Randy Mulder
Ron Jones (
www.oldohiobridges.com )
Susan Babcock
Todd Wilson (
www.bridgemapper.com )
Tom Byle
(Kent County Road Commission Assistant Engineer)
Vern Mesler (
www.historicbridgerestoration.com )
Historic bridges are among the most threatened of historic structures in North America, and their frequent demolition is often also an example of how taxpayer dollars are being wasted to demolish and replace these historic structures at a higher cost.
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The following excepts from the National Trust for Historic Preservation about historic bridges in the state of Indiana reveal an attitude and event reflected across the United States. "From 1987 to 1999, poor planning and conflicting interests led to the loss of 62 percent of Indiana's metal bridges built between 1860 and 1930." "While communities appreciate the historic value of their bridges, planners often recommend demolition before seeking local input. The end result: historic bridges are being torn down even though rehabilitation is generally cheaper than new construction." "While appreciation for Indiana's covered bridges has increased, the destruction of other types of historic bridges has escalated at an alarming rate." "Most of the historic bridges are threatened by county governments' drive to replace them with modern structures at the recommendation of consulting engineers. Replacement of historic bridges with new ones typically costs taxpayers much more than restoration, and it destroys landmarks that are an integral part of local communities throughout the state." "Indiana needs a bridge preservation plan that takes a comprehensive look at these endangered resources throughout the state and sets clear priorities for preservation, with funding to allow for rehabilitation. Preservation advocates must be consulted as individual bridge projects are considered, to ensure that preservation and rehabilitation alternatives are fully explored." |
The United States government and the 50 states define a historic bridge as a bridge listed in or officially found eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places is a listing that has specific requirements called Criterion that a bridge must meet to be eligible or listed. HistoricBridges.org believes that the National Register is a useful tool, but has some serious problems. Bridges that display an appearance and/or design not found in modern bridges may help give a community a sense of identity and origin, and they may tell us a great deal about our transportation heritage, yet may be ineligible for the National Register. Also, the National Register provides no clear indication of the varying significance of old bridges. Some bridges are more rare and significant than others and deserve greater effort toward preservation, however the National Register provides only a "Yes" or "No" finding for eligibility or listing. Furthermore, the way the United States operates, if a bridge is not listed or eligible, it is given no consideration for preservation by the federal government, even if the bridge offers some level of heritage value (even if not meeting National Register Criterion) and would be feasible to preserve... yet such bridges are instead demolished with no consideration given to the feasibility of preservation.
It should be noted that some communities in the United States have municipal designations for historic structures. In some cases, such as the City of Chicago's Landmark designation, the criteria for these listings is quite different from the National Register of Historic Places, and furthermore, these listings may offer greater protection for the designated bridge.
In Canada, heritage designations are largely handled by municipality-level designations. There are provincial designations as well, such as the Ontario Heritage Bridge List. Also, Ontario has a unique point-based system for evaluating the heritage value of historic bridges. Like the National Register Criterion in the United States, the Ontario procedure has its own unique faults and shortcomings, however as a point-based system it acknowledges a range of significances which the U.S. National Register does not.
HistoricBridges.org lists many bridges, ranging from nationally significant historic bridges that have one or more official designations, down to bridges that may have very little significance or might even be heavily altered from their original design, but still have something to tell us about the history of transportation or bridge construction.
Because of the wide variety of historic significance among the bridges listed on HistoricBridges.org, and because of the shortcomings of official designations, HistoricBridges.org instead uses a unique proprietary system to asses the historic significance of bridges on the website, called the Historic Significance Rating (HSR). Click here to learn more about the Historic Significance Rating. This page also explains the range of bridges included on this website. Sometimes, a HistoricBridges.org narrative will discuss whether or not a bridge should be considered eligible for or listed in the National Register, but this is separate of the HSR rating.
As such, do not visit HistoricBridges.org expecting to see only rare historic bridges that are officially designated. At the same time, use the HSR rating to help sort through the bridges that are really important or rare versus those that are more common and less significant. Visitors interested in only rare and highly significant bridges should be able to use the HSR ratings to single out those bridges. At the same time it should be noted that HistoricBridges.org does pride itself in not including modern bridges built after 1970. In only a few cases are post-1970 bridges shown on this website, and when they are, they are clearly marked as modern bridges. This is a website about transportation past, not transportation present.
HistoricBridges.org's deviations from following systems like the National Register and exclusion of modern bridges sets this website apart from other bridge websites, as well as apart from the philosophies of other bridge experts and scholars. It is the intent that these differences do not diminish the usefulness and credibility of the content offered on HistoricBridges.org, but instead offer a new and unique perspective to the heritage value of bridges.
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Since this website began in 2003, we have noted a steady increase in the number of ticks encountered while photographing bridges. Since the best places to photo a bridge often involve walking through weeds and brush you inevitably end up in their natural habitat. However, they seem to be becoming more numerous. Of even greater concern is the noted increase charted by the Center for Disease Control in incidents of Lyme Disease, a very miserable and potentially dangerous disease that can be somewhat time consuming and expensive to get rid of. Areas of concern can be roughly determined based on where cases of Lyme Disease are reported. Click here to view the most recent map from the Center for Disease Control. Also note that eastern Canada also has Lyme disease. If you are photographing bridges in these areas and you are the sort of person who wants to walk off the road to get good photos, consider caution in these areas. Check your body at the end of the day for ticks. We also recommend treating your clothing with permethrin (available online at many stores) which can kill ticks that wander onto your clothing, and also spraying bug spray containing DEET to further deter them.
This Version Adopted January 11, 2012 (Previous Version: November 25, 2011)
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