NRHP Reference # 80000149 Area 2,800 m² Added to NRHP 27 February 1980 | Opened 1902 Nearest city La Crosse | |
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Architectural style Bowstring Arch Truss Bridge MPS Van Loon Wildlife Area Truss Bridge TR Similar Salmon Bay Bridge, Mons Anderson House, Main Hall/La Crosse St, Harley‑Davidson Museum, Lake Michigan | ||
Bridge No. 4, near La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States, was built in 1902. It is a Bowstring arch truss bridge built by the Clinton Bridge Company. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
It is one of seven bridges built during 1891-92 by the Clinton Bridge Company, of Clinton, Iowa, to bring a La Crosse County road through backwaters of the Black River and then cross the Black River itself, connecting the city of La Crosse with rural Trempeleau County. All seven were bowstring arch truss bridges, but one was replaced by a kingpost truss bridge nine years after being damaged in 1911. The kingpost one and all but the main bridge spanning the Black River itself survived in 1979.
The Black River had previously been crossed by a ferry started by Alex McGilvray in 1861.
The bridge consists of two spans, and is 17 feet (5.2 m) wide and 131 feet (40 m) long. It has a concrete deck. Its steel was from the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company. The tension members of the bridge "are a combination of round and square eye-bars with the eyes made by looping over and welding the end of the bar."