Acadia National Park Photograph - Cobblestone Bridge Acadia National Park #1 by Elizabeth Dow

Cobblestone Bridge Acadia National Park #1 is a photograph by Elizabeth Dow which was uploaded on July 3rd, 2023.

Cobblestone Bridge Acadia National Park #1

Walking along the Private Property Carriage Road in Acadia National Park is delightful. Bikers are not allowed on the Private Property walk, so a... more

by Elizabeth Dow

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Title

Cobblestone Bridge Acadia National Park #1

Artist

Elizabeth Dow

Medium

Photograph - Photographs

Description

Walking along the Private Property Carriage Road in Acadia National Park is delightful. Bikers are not allowed on the Private Property walk, so a hiker has a sense of freedom without worrying about their safety. When hiking along the Jordan Stream path, the Cobblestone Bridge is a sight to behold. It almost rises out of the Earth with a great majesty and grandeur that it takes my breath away each time I see it. Also along the Private Property walk, you will see many horses and carriages. It's a favorite for equestrians due to the rules prohibiting the bikers from riding along the Carriage Roads here.

"Located on private land outside park boundaries on the Gardiner-Mitchell Hill-Jordan Stream Road, Cobblestone Bridge (1917) was the first of 17 bridges constructed along 57 miles of carriage road on Mount Desert Island between 1917 and 1940."

"Built with reinforced concrete with battered semi-circular turrets, it has a massive, semi-circular 28-foot arch with rounded cobblestones on both the barrel and spandrel wall. The approaches are widely flared and conform to the layout of the two intersecting roads, and round tower-like buttresses project from the wing walls to provide lookouts both down- and upstream, which allow views of the arch from above. The simple ornamentation consists of roughly articulated granite voussoirs and coping distinguished from the body of the arch. The date of construction, 1917, is carved on the keystone."

"It was designed by New York architect William Welles Bosworth, a friend of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. who also designed the main buildings for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
(Borrowed from https://www.nps.gov/places/cobblestone-bridge.htm)

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July 3rd, 2023