Glenville Truss Bridge

Coordinates: 38°55′58″N 80°50′20″W / 38.93278°N 80.83889°W

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Glenville Truss Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Glenville Truss Bridge, February 2011
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Location	Conrad Court, over Little Kanawha R., Glenville, West Virginia
Coordinates	38°55′58″N 80°50′20″W / 38.93278°N 80.83889°W / 38.93278; -80.83889
Area	less than one acre
Built	1885
Architect	Wrought Iron Bridge Builders; Stewart Shirreffs and Co.
Architectural style	Pratt Through Truss
NRHP reference No.	98001477 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 4, 1998

Glenville Truss Bridge is a historic Pratt Through Truss bridge that spans the Little Kanawha River at Glenville, Gilmer County, West Virginia. The bridge was built in 1885. The bridge is 240 feet, 6 inches, long and the main through truss span is 147 feet. It was designed and/or built by the Stewart, Shirreffs & Co. of Richmond, Virginia and fabricated by the Wrought Iron Bridge Builders of Canton, Ohio.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.^[1]

The bridge has suffered considerable damage in recent years and is now unusable. It was barred to vehicular traffic for several decades and has now been completely blocked off since a flood washed away a part of it at the left-bank end. There is a local movement to save and restore it, and a grant has even been obtained for that purpose, but since neither the city of Glenville nor Gilmer County claims ownership (and thus responsibility), the situation is at a standstill.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Kim A. Valente (June 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Glenville Truss Bridge" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2011-06-29. Retrieved 2011-06-20.

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