Las Cabañas Bridge

The Las Cabañas Bridge (Spanish: Puente de Las Cabañas) is a historic highway bridge in Adjuntas municipality, Puerto Rico. Built in 1919 to provide access to a key coffee-producing region, it was financed by nearby plantations through public subscription. Designer Rafael Nones and builder Félix Benítez Rexach, two of the most prominent figures in Puerto Rican bridge construction in the early 20th century, used a unique combination of steel and concrete technologies to produce a girder design unlike any other on the island and possibly beyond.[1]

Las Cabañas Bridge
The Las Cabañas Bridge in 2017
Las Cabañas Bridge
Las Cabañas Bridge
LocationSpanning the Río de las Vacas on Highway 135, km 82.4
Barrios Capáez and Juan González,[lower-alpha 1]
Adjuntas municipality
Puerto Rico
Coordinates18°10′47″N 66°44′11″W
Area235.2 m2 (2,532 sq ft)[1]
Built1919
Built byFélix Benítez Rexach
EngineerRafael Nones
MPSHistoric Bridges of Puerto Rico MPS[1]
NRHP reference No.95000838
Added to NRHPJuly 19, 1995

The bridge was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1995.[6]

See also
  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico

Notes
  1. Several prose sources place the bridge in Barrios Capáez and Garzas,[1][2][3] while other, map-based sources show it to be in Barrios Capáez and Juan González.[4][5]

References
  1. Pumarada O'Neill, Luis (July 31, 1994), National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Las Cabañas Bridge (PDF), retrieved February 22, 2016.
  2. Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas (n.d.), Nuestros Puentes Históricos: Puentes de Otros Tipos [Our Historic Bridges: Bridges of Other Types] (in Spanish), archived from the original on April 27, 2010, retrieved February 24, 2016CS1 maint: unfit URL (link).
  3. Oficina Estatal de Conservación Histórica (April 1, 2014), Puente de Las Cabañas (PDF) (summary sheet), retrieved February 24, 2016.
  4. Oficina Estatal de Conservación Histórica (n.d.), Puerto Rico: Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos [Puerto Rico: National Register of Historic Places] (online GIS), retrieved February 24, 2016.
  5. Junta de Planificación (March 2009), Limites legales: Barrios [Legal boundaries: Barrios] (KML), retrieved February 24, 2016.
  6. National Park Service (July 28, 1995), Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 7/17/95 through 7/21/95 (PDF), p. 45, retrieved February 23, 2016.


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