Baker Bridge, a 1917 concrete arch over Great Trough Creek

A mile east of Newburg, where an unpaved township road heads toward the Rothrock State Forest, a concrete bridge carries township route 370 across Great Trough Creek. The county bridge office knows it as Huntingdon County Bridge number 14. Its name is Baker Bridge, and it was built in 1917. The nomination gives the architect and builder as unknown.

The structure is a two span concrete arch, 114 feet long. A 1991 National Park Service inventory of the county's historic engineering and industrial sites puts each arch span at about fifty feet. The nomination calls it a double rib, closed spandrel arch, a filled arch, with the space over the arches filled in beneath the roadway. The paved deck is seventeen feet wide, with metal pipe railings. The bridge sits half a mile north of Route 994, on a road the nomination describes as isolated and rural.

The nomination says Baker Bridge is one of fewer than fifteen identified concrete arch bridges erected in the region in the 1910s. The 1991 inventory, written by Nancy Shedd from the same 1988 survey the nomination draws on, puts it more loosely as one of several. The nomination places its significance in engineering, at the local level, and files it under the Industrial Resources of Huntingdon County multiple property listing. The form was prepared in September 1989 and received by the National Park Service on February 7, 1990.

The bridge had been repaired in 1978, and the nomination says the repair did not compromise its integrity. Some spalling had occurred from weather, but the bridge kept its material, its design and its setting. The nominated property is a rectangle 114 feet by 17 feet whose corners are the outside corners of the bridge's wing walls, and it takes in nothing but the bridge itself.

This two-span filled concrete-arch bridge was constructed in 1917 across Great Trough Creek. It is one of less than fifteen identified concrete arch bridges erected in the region in the 1910s.National Register of Historic Places nomination, Baker Bridge (reference 90000411), section 8, continuation page 2 (PDF page 5) · character 4,391 of the scanned text

Checked 2026-09-05 · National Register of Historic Places nomination, read in full

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