The bridge was originally a Strauss heel-trunnion Warren through-truss bascule design, built in 1919.

It was built by the American Bridge Company for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, replacing a span dating from 1889.

In June 2008, the bridge underwent replacement which included the span's conversion from a bascule to a vertical-lift mechanism.

[1] As built in 1919, the bridge's abutments and piers were designed to carry a second set of double-track spans, in the event that an expansion to four tracks was ever undertaken at this location by the New Haven Railroad (it never was).

[2] It is one of eight moveable bridges on the Northeast Corridor through Connecticut surveyed in one multiple-property study in 1986.