The Pine Creek bridge is one of only three Berlin lenticular truss bridges with Warren pattern web members that survive in the United States. The Berlin Iron Bridge Company's sales force was so successful in convincing county commissioners that their bridges were less expensive to build that all but one of the lenticular truss bridges in the nation were built by the company. The only bridge they did not build is the Smithfield Street Bridge over the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh, designed in 1882 by Gustav Lindenthal (
AL4). The Berlin Iron Bridge Company was headquartered in East Berlin, Connecticut, until its 1900 merger with the American Bridge Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel Corporation.