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Identification:
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Preferred Structure Name:
| Going-to-the-Sun Road Triple Arches Bridge
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Structure Number:
| BRDG038P
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Other Structure Name(s):
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Other Structure Name(s)
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1.
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Dry Ravine Bridge
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Park:
| Glacier National Park
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Historic District:
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Historic District
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1.
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Going-to-the-Sun Road
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Structure State:
| Montana
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Structure County:
| Flathead
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Region:
| Intermountain
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Cluster:
| Rocky Mountain
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Administrative Unit:
| Glacier National Park
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LCS ID:
| 051125
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Historical Significance:
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National Register Status:
| Entered - Documented
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National Register Date:
| 06/16/1983
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National Historic Landmark?:
| Yes
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National Historic Landmark Date:
| 02/18/1997
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Significance Level:
| Contributing
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Short Significance Description:
| The Going-to-the-Sun Road Triple Arches Bridge is a contributing feature to the Going-to-the-Sun Road NHL. The Road is eligible under NHL criteria 1 and 4. The Road is significant in the areas of Landscape Architecture, Transportation and Politics/Government. Period of Significance 1921-1952.
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Long Significance Description:
| The Going-to-the-Sun Road Triple Arches Bridge is a contributing feature to the Going-to-the-Sun Road NHL. The Road is eligible under NHL criterion 1 for its association with the American park movement and the initiation of “landscape engineering” and Criterion 4 as an exceptionally valuable example of American landscape architecture and specifically as a distinctive and outstanding example of “landscape engineering” that blended the practices of civil engineering and landscape architecture. The Going-to-the Sun Road Historic District is also nationally significant in the history of technology (transportation) because of its unprecedented engineering and its place as a link in the Park-to-Park Highway. The Road is also significant under NHL Theme III. Expressing Cultural Values #5 Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design and Theme VII Transforming the Environment #3 Protecting ad Preserving the Environment. The Road is significant in the areas of Landscape Architecture, Transportation and Politics/Government. Period of Significance 1921-1952.
The Going-to-the-Sun Road Triple Arches Bridge is a contributing feature to the Going-to-the-Sun Road Historic District under NR Criteria A - Transportation, Recreation, Engineering. The Road signifies the increase in importance of auto traffic in national parks and the accessibility of more of the park to the public.
Road travels through Glacier County and Flathead County.
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Construction Period:
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Construction Period:
| Historic
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Chronology:
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Physical Event
| Begin Year
| Begin Year AD/BC
| End Year
| End Year AD/BC
| Designer
| Designer Occupation
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1.
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Built
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1926
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AD
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1928
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AD
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Bureau of Public Roads/NPS
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Other
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Function and Use:
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Primary Historic Function:
| Road Bridge
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Primary Current Use:
| Road Bridge
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Structure Contains Museum Collections?:
| No
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Other Functions or Uses:
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Other Function(s) or Use(s)
| Historic or Current
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| No records. |
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Physical Description:
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Structure Type:
| Bridge
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Square Feet:
| 1365
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Material(s):
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Structural Component(s)
| Material(s)
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1.
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Substructure
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Stone
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2.
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Substructure
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Concrete
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3.
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Superstructure
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Concrete
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4.
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Superstructure
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Stone
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Short Physical Description:
| Three-span reinforced concrete filled spandrel arch half bridge, 65' x 21', bridge has rubble masonry railings and modern timber railings, abutments and piers are concrete faced with rock. 29 miles from entrance.
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Long Physical Description:
| Three-span reinforced concrete filled spandrel arch half bridge, 65' x 21', bridge has rubble masonry railings and modern timber railings, abutments and piers are concrete faced with rock. 29 miles from entrance.
Bridge was built to span deep rifts in the mountainside around Garden Wall.
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