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description

Summary

Significance: Designed by the Iowa State Highway Commission, the continuous steel plate girder of two asymmetrical spans is broken into two unequal lengths with an interesting detail off-center of the middle pier.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N252

Survey number: HAER IA-81

Building/structure dates: 1932 Initial Construction

Nothing Found.

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date_range

Date

1969 - 1980
person

Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Iowa State Highway Commission
Welden Brothers Construction Company
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Location

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Source

Library of Congress
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Link

http://www.loc.gov/
copyright

Copyright info

No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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