{"id":14476,"date":"2022-11-11T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14476"},"modified":"2022-11-10T09:20:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T15:20:12","slug":"historic-shellsburg-bridge-will-be-bypassed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/historic-shellsburg-bridge-will-be-bypassed\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Shellsburg bridge will be bypassed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14481\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ShellsburgBridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ShellsburgBridge.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ShellsburgBridge-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>May 16, 2017:<\/strong> A marker for Shellsburg depicts the bridge right behind it, at the south end of the business district.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Nov. 1 Benton County Supervisors meeting had some updates from the county engineer that affect noteworthy locations. The <em>Star Press Union<\/em> (via Jim Magdefrau, who also writes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jimmagdefrau.com\/2022\/11\/02\/holidays-and-roadside-help-are-dealt-with-by-supervisors\/\">on his personal website<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southeastiowaunion.com\/star-press-union\/holidays-and-roadside-help-are-dealt-with-by-supervisors\/\">has a recap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rIP_pdtCx0g?t=1185\">video of the meeting (timestamp: 19:45)<\/a> shows the engineer explaining that the city of Shellsburg has secured funding for a new bridge just south of downtown. The historic arch bridge will be restricted to pedestrians and bicycles. The road makes a sharp turn to cross this bridge, so the new one likely will be designed to cross Bear Creek south of it and align to the railroad crossing to the south.<\/p>\n<p>The Iowa DOT has a <a href=\"https:\/\/iowadot.gov\/historicbridges\/historic-bridges\/shellsburg-bridge\">page about this 1915 bridge<\/a> because of its significance in early Iowa State Highway Commission history, although this bridge was never part of the state system. The bridge features &#8220;a more studied architectural expression with bichrome concrete detailing, molded concrete balustrades and incised spandrel panels&#8221; due to its location in a town rather than a rural setting, the webpage says. If you see concrete elements like this on other old bridges, although not as elaborate, you can be sure it&#8217;s either a 1910s bridge or designed to mimic one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 16, 2017: A marker for Shellsburg depicts the bridge right behind it, at the south end of the business district. The Nov. 1 Benton County Supervisors meeting had some updates from the county engineer that affect noteworthy locations. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/historic-shellsburg-bridge-will-be-bypassed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14482,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14476\/revisions\/14482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}