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TITLE:
Okoboji Bridge, Spanning Strait betweent East & West Okoboji Lakes, Okoboji, Dickinson County, IA
CALL NUMBER:
HAER IOWA,30-OKOB,1-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 15 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 16 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.
CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
RELATED NAME(S):
Wegman-French, Lysa, transmitter
NOTE:
Survey number HAER IA-40
Building/structure dates: 1929 initial construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 98000789
Significance: Built in 1929, the Okoboji Bridge is one of only four cantilevered concrete girders known to remain in use on Iowa's highways. Employed where a simpler, less costly steel stringer span would have sufficed, the bridge represents an affinity for concrete construction and an uncharacteristic commitment to aesthetics on the part of the Iowa State Highway Commission. The structure is also noteworthy as the latest in a series of spans over the strait between East and West Okoboji Lakes - the oldest bridged crossing in Dickinson County. The present Okoboji Bridge and its five timber and steel predecessors represent a continuum of bridge construction stretching back more than 130 years, providing insight into the evolution of bridge technology.
SUBJECTS:
IOWA--Dickinson County--Okoboji
COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ia0404
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. OVERALL VIEW OF BRIDGE, U.S. HIGHWAY 71 AND WEST OKOBOJI LAKE, WITH TOWN OF ARNOLDS PARK IN BACKGROUND. VIEW TO SOUTHEAST.
2. OVERALL VIEW OF BRIDGE AND EAST OKOBOJI LAKE. VIEW TO SOUTHWEST.
3. WEST SIDE OF BRIDGE. VIEW TO NORTHEAST.
4. SOUTH PORTAL OF BRIDGE, WITH TOWN OF OKOBOJI IN BACKGROUND. VIEW TO NORTH.
5. WEST SIDE OF BRIDGE. VIEW TO SOUTHEAST.
6. WEST SIDE OF BRIDGE. VIEW TO EAST.
7. EAST SIDE OF BRIDGE. VIEW TO SOUTHWEST.
8. EAST SIDE OF BRIDGE. VIEW TO NORTHWEST.
9. DETAIL OF UNDERSIDE OF BRIDGE, SHOWING GIRDERS, SPANDREL AND CHANNEL FENDER, VIEW TO NORTHWEST.
10. DETAIL OF GUARDRAIL EXTERIOR. VIEW TO SOUTHEAST.
11. DETAIL OF GUARDRAIL INTERIOR. VIEW TO SOUTHWEST.
12. DETAIL OF CULVERT IN BRIDGE NORTH APPROACH. vIEW TO WEST.
13. Photocopy of construction drawing (microfilm copy located at the Iowa Department of Transportation, Ames, Iowa). Iowa State Highway Commission, October 1929. SITUATION PLAN.
14. Photocopy of construction drawing (microfilm copy located at the Iowa Departmant of Transportation, Ames, Iowa). Iowa State Highway Commission, October 1929. SUBSTRUCTURE DETAILS.
15. Photocopy of construction drawing (microfilm copy located at the Iowa Departmant of Transportation, Ames, Iowa). Iowa State Highway Commission, October 1929. SUPERSTRUCTURE DETAILS.
CONTROL #:
IA0404
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