West Branch Jordan Stream Bridge, Spanning West Branch Jordan Stream on Asticou-Jordan Pond Carriage Road, Seal Harbor, Hancock County, ME
Summary
Significance: Copied from a bridge in New York's Central Park, the West Branch Jordan Stream Bridge bears the Amphitheater Road across an intermittent stream on a narrow Roman arch. A major structure built to span a minor brook, the structure is largely faced with massive granite blocks, some of which are set into adjacent outcrops so as to appear to have been carved from the stone itself.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N347
Survey number: HAER ME-42
Building/structure dates: 1931 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
Stoughton, Charles W
Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Incorporated
Quin, Richard H, historian
Location
Seal Harbor, 44.30870, -68.23076
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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