- City:
- Prescott, AZ
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1936, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a bridge on E. Willis Street across a small wash just east of N. Virginia Street in Prescott AZ. It is a short bridge made of concrete and local stone, in typical WPA rustic style. The downstream side (north) has a long channel, presumably to prevent erosion of the banks.
The WPA project card in the National Archives is mislabeled as the Virginia Street bridge – an understandable error, given that there are two WPA bridges, one on West Willis and one on East Willis Street (the Virginia Street bridge is not actually on Virginia Street, just next to it).
The bridge is still intact and bears a WPA stamp on the south railing.
Source notes
National Archives Record Group 69-N
Arizona Historic Bridge Inventory, Arizona Department of Transportation, 2008. https://azdot.gov/content/bridge-inventory-introductory-information. p. 82
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on December 4, 2017.
Additional contributions by Richard Walker.
Contribute to this Site
We welcome contributions of additional information on any New Deal site.
Submit More Information or Photographs for this New Deal Site
Join the Conversation