Last updated: October 20, 2020
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Jordan Pond Dam Bridge
Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, David Haney, 1994
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The Jordan Pond Dam Bridge (1920) was the third of 17 bridges constructed along 57 miles of carriage road on Mount Desert Island between 1917 and 1940. The bridge carries Asticou-Jordan Pond Road across Jordan Stream adjacent to a small dam at the southwest corner of Jordan Pond.
It is one of three smaller masonry bridges with a single arch in Acadia that was modeled after a bridge at the end of Swan Lake in Central Park.
The reinforced-concrete arch measures 41-feet 6-inches long, and 10-feet 5-inches at its highest point. It is faced with semi-coursed cut granite, except on the underside of the arch where the concrete is exposed.
The segmental arch, 19-feet wide, has arched parapet walls topped with alternating single and paired granite capstones and flanked by squared, battered piers with pyramidal capstones. A datestone inscribed with the 1920 construction date is incorporated into the north parapet wall. Wingwalls flare out slightly at the ends and have ornamental scuppers.
The total cost of construction in 1920 is listed as $2,375.11.