Historic ‘Zumbro Parkway Bridge’ gets a facelift
Restoration is complete on the County Road 68 bridge at Zumbro Falls. The bridge is a stone-faced, double-arch, multi-plate bridge built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1937.
Designed for the WPA by J.M. Evans, who apparently was an engineer with the Wabasha County Highway Department, the Zumbro Parkway Bridge was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 for engineering significance.
Only 35 multi-plate stone-arch bridges survived in Minnesota from the New Deal era.
Want to read the full article? Full access to lakecitygraphic.com is only $52 per year. Print subscriptions are $58 for Wabasha and Goodhue county residents and $80 anywhere else in the continental U.S. To begin, click here. Already a subscriber? Log in or request an account below.