Property Record
N7107 COUNTY ROAD GG
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Haugen Bridge (P-68-079) |
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| Reference Number: | 238730 |
| Location (Address): | N7107 COUNTY ROAD GG |
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| County: | Waupaca |
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| Township/Village: | Scandinavia |
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| Town: | 23 |
| Range: | 11 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 3 |
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| Year Built: | 1905 |
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| Survey Date: | 2018 |
| Historic Use: | stone arch bridge |
| Architectural Style: | NA (unknown or not a building) |
| Structural System: | Masonry Arch |
| Wall Material: | Granite Stone |
| Architect: | Mortimer Lovdahl, Tengel Evenson, and Thomas Norestad, contractors |
| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 2018- The Haugen Bridge is located in the Town of Scandinavia in Waupaca County. It was built in 1905 by Lovdahl, Evenson, and Norestad. The engineer is not known. The structure is an ashlar-granite, two-arch bridge with standard-plan, metal highway railings and a concrete-slab deck addition that overhangs the original parapets by about 2 feet on each side at the middle of the bridge and by about 6 inches at the ends. The granite is rock-faced and either locally quarried or split from fieldstone. Springing at waterline, the arches are semi-circular, each rising 6 feet over a 12 foot span. Except for the east end of the east arch, the original stonework of the pier and abutment footings have been encased in concrete to prevent scour. The bridge is about 53 feet in length and 23 feet 6 inches in width. Located just southwest of the Village of Iola, the structure is one of about 50 stone-arch bridges built in Waupaca County during 1900-1910, when rural areas throughout the state upgraded their roads to handle heavier, mechanized farm machinery. Fewer than 10 of these bridges still exist. The bridge was constructed in 1905 for $1,660 by Lovdahl, Evenson, and Norestad of Iola. This partnership built another stone-arch bridge in the nearby Village of Scandinavia in 1906 (Main Street Bridge, AHI #238727). Both bridges exhibit well-executed ashlar masonry, which sets them apart from the rubble-fieldstone construction of the county’s other, surviving, rural, stone-arch bridges. |
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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 |