Duck Brook Bridge, Spanning Duck Brook between Witch Hole Loop & New , Bar Harbor vicinity, Hancock County, ME

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6 b&w photos
9 data pages
1 photo caption pages

TITLE:
Duck Brook Bridge, Spanning Duck Brook between Witch Hole Loop & New , Bar Harbor vicinity, Hancock County, ME

CALL NUMBER:
HAER ME,5-BAHA.V,9-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 6 (5 x 7 in.)
Data Page(s): 8 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER ME-40

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N346).

Building/structure dates: 1929 initial construction

Significance: The most graceful of the Rockefeller carriage roads, Duck Brook Bridge provides access to the Witch Hole Pond and Paradise Hill carriage road loops from Bar Harbor. The granite-faced reinforced concrete bridge spans the deep ravine of Duck Brook on three massive semicircular arches. Landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand devoted considerable attention to the site and oversaw a complex planting plan to "frame" and accentuate the bridge; unfortunately, these plantings were destroyed in the 1947 fire which swept over much of Mount Desert Island.

SUBJECTS:
MAINE--Hancock County--Bar Harbor vicinity
concrete arch bridges
transportation
bridge construction

OTHER TITLE:
Duck Brook Carriage Road Bridge
Acadia National Park

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.me0264

CONTROL #:
ME0264

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