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Bridge No. 4 (La Crosse, Wisconsin)

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McGilvray Road Bridge No. 4, Van Loon Wildlife Area, La Crosse vicinity (La Crosse County, Wisconsin)
McGilvray Road Bridge No. 4, Van Loon Wildlife Area, La Crosse vicinity (La Crosse County, Wisconsin)

Bridge No. 4, near La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States, was built in 1902. It is a bowstring truss bridge built by the Clinton Bridge Company. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in 1987. The bridge is one of seven built during 1891-92 by the Clinton Bridge Company, of Clinton, Iowa, to bring a La Crosse County road through backwaters of the Black River and then cross the Black River itself, connecting the city of La Crosse with rural Trempealeau County. All seven were bowstring truss bridges, but one was replaced by a kingpost truss bridge nine years after being damaged in 1911. The kingpost truss and all but the main bridge spanning the Black River itself survived in 1979.The Black River had previously been crossed by a ferry started by Alex McGilvray in 1861.The bridge consists of two spans, and is 17 feet (5.2 m) wide and 131 feet (40 m) long. It has a concrete deck. Its steel was from the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company. The tension members of the bridge "are a combination of round and square eye-bars with the eyes made by looping over and welding the end of the bar.": 2 

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Bridge No. 4 (La Crosse, Wisconsin)
McGilvray Road, Town of Holland

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McGilvray Road
Town of Holland
Wisconsin, United States
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McGilvray Road Bridge No. 4, Van Loon Wildlife Area, La Crosse vicinity (La Crosse County, Wisconsin)
McGilvray Road Bridge No. 4, Van Loon Wildlife Area, La Crosse vicinity (La Crosse County, Wisconsin)
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Ridge Avenue Historic District (Galesville, Wisconsin)
Ridge Avenue Historic District (Galesville, Wisconsin)

The Ridge Avenue Historic District in Galesville, Wisconsin is a 5 acres (2.0 ha) historic district which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The district contains eleven contributing properties; they are primarily located on Ridge Avenue between 4th and 6th Streets. The district was added for its architectural importance; it features buildings with Italian, Queen Anne, and other architectural styles dated between 1859 and 1934. The John F. Cance House is located near the district at 807 West Ridge Avenue. The finest three Queen Anne-style houses in the district are: W.S. Wadleigh House (1908), 625 W. Ridge Ave., a two-story asymmetrical house with a round turret with a conical roof, with two octagonal bay windows, and with a wraparound porch. It was built for W.S. Wadleigh, a lawyer and nine-times mayor of Galesville. Ole F. Myhre House, 612 W. Ridge Ave., a two and one-half story house, also with a turret having a conical roof, with gable ends with bargeboards, with a contributing carriage house. It was built for Ole F. Myhre, co-founder of the successful Gilbertson-Myhre department store downtown. John A. Berg House (1914), 524 W. Ridge Ave., a two-and-a-half-story red brick Queen Anne-eclectic style house with Craftsman and Jacobean influences. This was built for John A. Berg, "founder of the Galesville Building and Realty Company, Director of the Farmer's and Merchant's Bank, local politician, and one-time president of the Gale College Board of Trustees."