King Street Overhead Bridge, Historic concrete bridge in Kings Mountain, United States
King Street Overhead Bridge is a concrete structure in Kings Mountain that carries West King Street over Norfolk Southern Railway tracks. The bridge connects both sides of the railroad area and allows traffic to pass over the tracks at this location.
The King Street Overhead Bridge was built in 1938–1939 as a reinforced concrete Moderne-style rigid-frame vehicular bridge in Kings Mountain. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The bridge carries West King Street, part of US 74 Business Route, over the Norfolk Southern Railway's Charlotte District tracks. Its Moderne styling shows in the smooth reinforced-concrete rigid frame, built in 1938–1939, with little ornament beyond the clean lines of the structure itself.
The bridge carries West King Street, also signed as US 74 Business Route, over the Norfolk Southern Railway tracks of the Charlotte District. It is a road bridge for vehicles, not a pedestrian walkway, so there is no separate path for visitors to stand on. Traffic crosses it directly, and trains run on the tracks below.
The structure is an example of rigid-frame construction using reinforced concrete, where columns and beams are joined without expansion joints. This technique was an advanced solution in the 1930s for stable and economical bridge building.
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