Frankford Avenue Bridge

Frankford Avenue Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
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Location	US 13 (Frankford Avenue) – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°02′37″N 75°01′14″W / 40.043526°N 75.020553°W / 40.043526; -75.020553
Built	1697
MPS	Highway Bridges Owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation TR
NRHP reference No.	88000803[1]
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1988

The Frankford Avenue Bridge, also known as the Pennypack Creek Bridge, the Pennypack Bridge, the Holmesburg Bridge, and the King's Highway Bridge, erected in 1697 in the Holmesburg section of Northeast Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, is the oldest surviving roadway bridge in the United States. The three-span, 73-foot-long (22 m) twin stone arch bridge carries Frankford Avenue (U.S. Route 13), just north of Solly Avenue, over Pennypack Creek in Pennypack Park.^[2]

The bridge was designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1970. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.