Bridge Street Bridge, Spanning Milwaukee River, Grafton, Ozaukee County, WI

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TITLE:
Bridge Street Bridge, Spanning Milwaukee River, Grafton, Ozaukee County, WI

CALL NUMBER:
HAER WIS,45-GRAF,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 9 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 13 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER WI-92

Building/structure dates: 1888 initial construction

Significance: The Bridge Street Bridge is a single span, single lane Pratt through truss that was erected in 1888. Built by the Wisconsin Bridge and Iron Company, it was identified in Cultural Resource Management in Wisconsin (the state's cultural resource management plan) as one of only six pre-1895 examples of that bridge type. As well, Cultural Resource Management identified the Wisconsin Bridge and Iron Company as a prolific bridge builder in the state. Indeed, the firm built five of the six aforementioned pre-1895 bridges. With its integrity very much intact, and the fact that no more than four of the six bridges previously cited exist today, the Bridge Street Bridge is significant as an excellent and rare example of an early Pratt through truss that was built by an important Wisconsin bridge building company.

SUBJECTS:
WISCONSIN--Ozaukee County--Grafton

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.wi0371

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. DISTANT VIEW TO SOUTH. SUBJECT BRIDGE AND ITS SETTING.
2. VIEW TO EAST. SUBJECT BRIDGE AND ITS SETTING.
3. VIEW TO SOUTHWEST. ADJACENT MILL IN BACKGROUND.
4. VIEW TO NORTHEAST.
5. VIEW TO EAST NORTHEAST.
6. VIEW TO WEST SOUTHWEST. DETAIL OF PORTAL STRUT AND BRIDGE PLATE.
7. VIEW TO NORTHWEST. PORTAL BRACING.
8. VIEW TO NORTHEAST. VERTICALS.
9. VERTICAL, TOP CHORD, TOP STRUT AND TOP LATERAL BRACING CONNECTION.

CONTROL #:
WI0371

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