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The Quinapoxet River Bridge is a historic bridge in
West Boylston, Massachusetts West Boylston is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States and a northern suburb of Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester. The population was 7,877 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. West Boylston includes the village of ...
, USA, carrying Thomas Street over the
Quinapoxet River The Quinapoxet River is part of the Nashua River watershed in northern Massachusetts in the United States. It is part of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority water system supplying drinking water to the greater Boston area. The river's name ...
near its mouth at the
Wachusett Reservoir The Wachusett Reservoir is the second largest body of water in the state of Massachusetts. It is located in central Massachusetts, northeast of Worcester. It is part of the water supply system for metropolitan Boston maintained by the Massachuset ...
. It is a concrete bridge faced in ashlar stone and was built in 1903 as part of the reservoir's construction. The bridge uses unusual construction methods designed to make it appear like an aqueduct, in a manner similar to the Ash Street Bridge in
Weston Weston may refer to: Places Australia * Weston, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra * Weston, New South Wales * Weston Creek, a residential district of Canberra * Weston Park, Canberra, a park Canada * Weston, Nova Scotia * ...
, built at the time of the construction of the
Weston Aqueduct The Weston Aqueduct is an aqueduct operated by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA). Now part of the MWRA backup systems, it was designed to deliver water from the Sudbury Reservoir in Framingham to the Weston Reservoir in Weston. ...
. The bridge was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1990.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) designated in Worcester County, Massachusetts. The locations of NRHP properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be ...
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List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts This is a list of bridges and tunnels on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. References {{National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Bridges Massachusetts Bridges Bridges A bridg ...


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Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Bridges in Worcester County, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts Concrete bridges in the United States {{Massachusetts-bridge-struct-stub