Property Record
1342 MALLARD RD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | WRIGHTSTOWN BRIDGE |
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| Other Name: | MALLARD RD BRIDGE |
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| Reference Number: | 10353 |
| Location (Address): | 1342 MALLARD RD |
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| County: | Brown |
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| Township/Village: | Wrightstown |
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| Town: | 22 |
| Range: | 20 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 31 |
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| Year Built: | 1909 |
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| Survey Date: | 198620182019 |
| Historic Use: | stone arch bridge |
| Architectural Style: | NA (unknown or not a building) |
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| Wall Material: | Limestone |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | The Wrightstown Bridge, also called the Mallard Road Bridge, (WisDOT structure ID P-05-133) is located in the Town of Wrightstown, Brown County. The bridge was built in 1909. Neither the engineer nor the contractor are known. The structure is a rock-faced, coursed-rubble, limestone, 2-arch bridge with perpendicular wing walls on the north elevation, and flared wing walls on the south elevation. Springing about 2 ft. above the waterline, the segmental arches rise about 6 ft. over spans of 18 ft. The ringstones are exceptionally well-blocked, featuring tapered, slightly elongated keystones. The bridge has triangular cutwaters on both faces of the pier. The bridge’s length, excluding wing walls is about 40 ft.; its width about 19 ft. The bridge originally had stone parapet railings. Approximately one-quarter of the north railing is missing. The bridge spans East River on Mallard Road about 4 miles northwest of the Village of Greenleaf and 15 miles southwest of the City of Green Bay. It was erected by the Town of Wrightstown in 1909 for $1,867, with the town and county splitting the expense. The high quality of its design and workmanship strongly suggests the planning and supervision of a professional engineer, probably from Green Bay. Stone was presumably supplied by a limestone quarry in the nearby Village of Greenleaf. The Wrightstown Bridge is historically significant as an excellent, well-preserved example of the stone-arch, county, bridge-building tradition that flourished in Wisconsin during the first decade of the twentieth century. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Hess, Jeffrey A. and Robert M. Frame, III. "Historic Highway Bridges in Wisconsin, Volume I: Stone and Concrete Arch Bridges." Wisconsin Department of Transportation, 1986. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |