Misplaced Pages

Annisquam Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Annisquam Bridge in 1987
Show map of MassachusettsShow map of the United States
Location	Gloucester, Massachusetts
Built	1861
Architect	Fred T. Hall
NRHP reference No.	83000572
Added to NRHP	June 23, 1983

The Annisquam Bridge is a historic bridge in Annisquam, Massachusetts, a village within the city of Gloucester. The bridge was built in 1861 to replace an earlier 1847 bridge that crossed Lobster Cove. It is a wooden pile bridge, a type of which only two others were found in New England as part of a c. 1979 survey. The bridge is 440 feet (130 m) long and 30 feet (9.1 m) wide, and had a drawbridge section in the center that was moved by a hand-cranked winch. The bridge has repeatedly been the subject of safety closings and restorative work over the course of the 20th century, and was completely rebuilt in 1946–7, removing the draw. Despite this, it was closed to vehicular traffic in 1968, and pedestrian traffic in 1987. The bridge has since been rehabilitated, and is open to pedestrian traffic.

The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

See also

• List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Massachusetts

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "MACRIS inventory record for Annisquam Bridge". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-22.

• View of the bridge in 1909
• The bridge in 2012

External links

• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. MA-61, "Annisquam Bridge, Spanning Lobster Cove between Washington & River Streets, Gloucester, Essex County, MA", 16 photos, 14 data pages, 2 photo caption pages

v t e U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Topics	Contributing property Keeper of the Register Historic district History of the National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Property types
Lists by county	Barnstable Berkshire Bristol Dukes Essex Franklin Hampden Hampshire Middlesex Nantucket Norfolk Plymouth Suffolk Worcester (northern)
Lists by city	Barnstable County Barnstable Harwich Bristol County Fall River New Bedford Taunton Essex County Andover Gloucester Ipswich Lawrence Lynn Methuen Salem Hampden County Springfield Middlesex County Arlington Cambridge Concord Framingham Lexington Lowell Marlborough Medford Newton Reading Sherborn Somerville Stoneham Wakefield Waltham Weston Winchester Norfolk County Brookline Milton Quincy Suffolk County Boston northern southern Worcester County Southbridge Uxbridge Worcester eastern northwestern southwestern
Other lists	Bridges Cape Cod National Seashore National Historic Landmarks Boston
Category National Register of Historic Places portal United States portal

42°39′18″N 70°40′32.4″W / 42.65500°N 70.675667°W / 42.65500; -70.675667 (Annisquam Bridge)

• v
• t
• e

This article about a bridge in Massachusetts is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
• Bridges completed in 1861
• Bridges in Essex County, Massachusetts
• Buildings and structures in Gloucester, Massachusetts
• Historic American Engineering Record in Massachusetts
• National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, Massachusetts
• 1861 establishments in Massachusetts
• Wooden bridges in the United States
• Essex County, Massachusetts Registered Historic Place stubs
• Northeastern United States bridge (structure) stubs
• Massachusetts building and structure stubs
• Massachusetts transportation stubs