Property Record
3565A N MORRIS BLVD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Chicago & North Western Railroad Bridge No. 1601 |
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| Other Name: | Hubbard Park Drive Bridge (P-40-575), Power Shack Bridge |
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| Reference Number: | 8850 |
| Location (Address): | 3565A N MORRIS BLVD |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Shorewood |
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| Year Built: | 1884 |
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| Survey Date: | 1980201120181993 |
| Historic Use: | stone arch bridge |
| Architectural Style: | NA (unknown or not a building) |
| Structural System: | Masonry Arch |
| Wall Material: | Sandstone |
| Architect: | Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railway Co. |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | In Highway Bridges Intensive Survey Report, vol. 1: P-40-575. Double barrel vault with keystones - elongated keystone on bridge's east elevation; keystone NOT elongated on west elevation. 2018- The Hubbard Park Drive Bridge (C&NWRR Bridge No. 1601) is located in the Village of Shorewood, Milwaukee County. It was built in 1883 by the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway. The contractor is not known. The structure is a rock-faced, coursed-ashlar, sandstone bridge with 2 semicircular arches, perpendicular wing walls, and ornamental, triangular cutwaters on both faces of the central pier. Springing about 5 ft. above grade, the arches rise 7 ft. 6 inches over spans of 15 ft. Differences in stonework on the east and west elevations suggest that the bridge has been widened. The east elevation displays ring stones with a smooth, chamfered margin on the bottom edge; the keystone is elongated. In contrast, the west elevation makes no distinction between the keystone and the other ring stones, which are chamfered with a smooth margin on the intrados. The bridge’s length, excluding wing walls, is about 24 ft.; its width about 97 ft. Constructed by the Milwaukee, lake Shore & Western Railway Company, the bridge embodies a standard stone-arch plan favored by many American railroads during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. There are seven similar, stone-arch highway crossings in Wisconsin built by the Chicago and North Western Railway. The Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western bridge differs from these primarily in its use of ornamental cutwaters, making the design a significant, and architecturally interesting, variant of the standard plan. County Landmark. |
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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 |