Chasm Brook Bridge, Spanning Chasm Brook on West Sargent Mountain Carriage Road, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, ME
Summary
Significance: Copied from a bridge in New York's Central Park, Chasm Bridge bears the Sargent Mountain carriage road loop across its namesake stream on a shallow segmental arch. The bridge design was previously used for three other structures on the Rockefeller carriage road system on Mount Desert Island.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N344
Survey number: HAER ME-38
Building/structure dates: 1926 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Bosworth, William Welles
Simpson, Paul D
Rockefeller, John D
B W Candage & Son
Candage, Sam
Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Incorporated
Quin, Richard H, historian
Location
Bar Harbor, 44.36240, -68.26953
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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