LB2008.14.115000

LB2008.14.115000

Bubble Pond Stone Bridge Bubble Pond Bridge is one of 16 beautifully designed stone bridges on the 57-mile network of private and National Park carriage roads developed by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The 75-foot-long Rustic style granite bridge has a 32-foot-wide arch, edged with rough, uneven stones called voussoirs and capped with a keystone incised with the construction year, 1928. It is the only bridge on a carriage road constructed entirely of stone; the others are reinforced concrete faced with stone. Rockefeller provided $20,000 for the bridge, even though the National Park Service rejected the designs he submitted as too "citified," and a NPS architect got the job. The bridge connected two sections of the Bubble Pond Carriage Road, carrying it over Mountain Road, the Jordan Pond-Eagle Lake section of the Park Loop Road that Rockefeller built between 1924 and 1927. In the 1960s that section of road was relocated away from the bridge and Bubble Pond. When the Bubble Pond parking lot was moved in 1983, the old part of the Park Loop road beneath the bridge was obliterated.