Manchester Street Bridge, Spanning Baraboo River on Manchester Street, Baraboo, Sauk County, WI

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TITLE:
Manchester Street Bridge, Spanning Baraboo River on Manchester Street, Baraboo, Sauk County, WI

CALL NUMBER:
HAER WIS,56-BARAB,3-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 10 (4 x 5 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 WI-14

Building/structure dates: 1884 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1970 subsequent work

Significance: The Manchester Street Bridge is a Camelback (Pratt) through truss. It was erected in 1884 by the Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Works, a very prolific late nineteenth century firm that built bridges throughout the midwest. This bridge has been cited in Cultural Resource Management in Wisconsin, the state's manual for historic properties, as one of only two Camelback truss bridges remaining in Wisconsin. Of the two it is the only pre-1900 structure. It is significant, therefore, as the state's only wrought iron, pin connected example of this unique Pratt truss.

SUBJECTS:
WISCONSIN--Sauk County--Baraboo
flour & meal industry
civil engineering
water supply

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.wi0181

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. VIEW TO NORTH. SUBJECT PROPERTY AND ITS SETTING
2. VIEW TO EAST NORTHEAST.
3. VIEW TO EAST.
4. VIEW TO EAST SOUTHEAST.
5. VIEW TO SOUTHEAST.
6. VIEW TO WEST. BRIDGE PLATE.
7. VIEW TO WEST. SIX FOOT SCALE.
8. VIEW TO WEST NORTHWEST.
9. VIEW TO NORTHWEST.
10. Photocopy of photograph (Original print in possession Sauk County Historical Society). Photographer and date unknown (circa 1900) VIEW TO SOUTHEAST. BRIDGE TO LEFT. MANCHESTER ROLLER MILL AND CITY PUMPING STATION AT LEFT CENTER AND RIGHT.

CONTROL #:
WI0181

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