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The Skew Arch Bridge in Reading, Pennsylvania, also known as the Askew Bridge and nicknamed the Soap and Whiskey Bridge, is an historic skew arch bridge that was completed in 1857. Its design enabled it to carry two tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad (P&R) at an angle over Sixth Street in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. [3]
Name Image Built Listed Location County Type Bridge in Athens Township: 1913 June 22, 1988 removed August 22, 2012: Athens: Bradford: Pennsylvania (petit) truss Highway Bridges Owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation TR
A skew arch bridge, a masterwork of cut stone construction, is another feature of the site near the Lemon House. The bridge is 60.4 feet (18.4 m) long on the south elevation, 54.9 feet (16.7 m) long on the north elevation, and 22.2 feet (6.8 m) high. [17] It was the only bridge on the line that was built to carry a road. [17]
"Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Bridge". Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion. 1 (3): 48. May 17, 1851. Steele, J. Dutton (1870). "On Skew Bridges, and on the Construction of Falls Skew Bridge over the Schuylkill, near Philadelphia". Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. 1: 209– 213.
Single span arch bridge Elkhead Stone Arch Bridge: ca. 1900: removed 1986-08-01 Pelham: Grundy: Paint Rock Creek Covered Bridge: ca. 1870: removed 1980-06-19 Huntsville: Scott: queen post truss Parks Covered Bridge: 1912 removed 1998-03-13 Trimble: Obion
Skew Arch Bridge, Spanning Incline No. 6 of Allegheny Portage Railroad: Extant Stone arch: 1833 1987 US 22 (former) Incline No. 6 of Allegheny Portage Railroad: Cresson: Cambria: PA-246: Stone Creek Bridge I: Extant Stone arch: 1850
The Thirty-third Street Bridge in Philadelphia carries Thirty-third Street (U.S. Route 13) over the former course of Master Street in the Brewerytown section of North Philadelphia, near Fairmount Park. The bridge was built in 1901 with an unusual skewed arch, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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