Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 97000194 Added to NRHP 27 February 1997 | Built 1936 Opened 1936 Nearest city Jamestown | |
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Architectural style Steel cantilever beam bridge, Other MPS Historic Roadway Bridges of North Dakota MPS Bridge type Cantilever bridge, Beam bridge Similar Beam bridge, Dakota Zoo, Chahinkapa Zoo, Red River Zoo, Roosevelt Park Zoo | ||
The Midland Continental Overpass near Jamestown, North Dakota is a steel cantilever beam bridge that was built in 1936. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
According to its nomination, the bridge is significant "for its association with efforts to modernize and improve North Dakota's roadway system during the New Deal era, including the state's first large-scale program of railroad-highway grade separation construction. The overpass is also eligible ... because it exhibits an unusual engineering design. The use of cantilevered spans during the historic period, such as exhibited at this structure, is rare in North Dakota." However, there are no records of the bridge's construction in county records.
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