CT's Historic Concrete Bridges (click on images for larger view)

Bridge No. 963




Bridge No. 963


• Route 41 over Sage Ravine Brook
• Salisbury
• Concrete arch
• Length: 35'
• Built in 1929
• Connecticut Highway Department, engineers

Bridge No. 963The natural beauty of this deep, wooded ravine must have called out to the State Highway Department engineers who designed Bridge No. 963. In addition to employing an arched form, they detailed the spandrels and abutments with three sizes of plain circular disks, making unique an otherwise standard early 20th-century concrete arch. The dramatic geometric motif foreshadows the Department's parkway bridges of the 1930s.


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