The Marsh Engineering Company was a company that designed many significant

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s in the United States, including a number that survive and are listed on the

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. It was located at 206 Masonic Temple in

Des Moines, Iowa Des Moines () is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small part of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines, ...

. The firm's principal engineer was

James Barney Marsh James Barney Marsh (April 12, 1856June 26, 1936) was an American engineer and bridge designer. He patented a new design for arch bridges. Marsh gave Archie Alexander, the first African-American to graduate as an engineer from Iowa State Univers ...

(1856–1936), an engineer and bridge designer born in North Lake, Wisconsin. Works include: * Dunkerton Bridge (1909), Town street over Crane Creek, Dunkerton, Iowa (NRHP-listed) 2009-0805-MN-MarshConcreteRainbow

* Marsh Concrete Rainbow Arch Bridge (1911), Courtland, Minnesota, is a reinforced concrete through arch bridge, built in 1911 the same year that Marsh obtained a patent for his design. (NRHP-listed) * Rainbow Arch Bridge at Valley City, North Dakota, (was NRHP-listed but was later removed) * Squaw Creek Bridge (1917), 120th St. and V Ave. over Squaw Creek, Ridgeport, Iowa (NRHP-listed) * Mederville Bridge (1918), County road over

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, Mederville, Iowa (NRHP-listed) * First Avenue Bridge (1920), US 151 over Cedar River, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (NRHP-listed) * Rainbow Arch Bridge (1922), CO 52, Fort Morgan, Colorado (NRHP-listed) * River Street Bridge (1922-24), Iowa Falls, Iowa (NRHP-listed) Cotter Bridge Spanning White River closeup

Cotter Bridge Spanning White River closeup

* Cotter Bridge, constructed in 1930, is the only bridge built by Marsh Engineering Company of Des Moines, Iowa in the state of Arkansas. It brings

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, over the White River, and opened up a large area of the Ozarks for recreation. (NRHP-listed) Henley-street-bridge-tn1

Henley Street Bridge The Henley Bridge, sometimes referred to as Henley Street Bridge, is a vehicle bridge that crosses the Tennessee River in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Completed in 1931, the bridgeMartha Carver, ''Tennessee's Survey Report for Historic H ...

, in Knoxville, Tennessee, designed in 1930 The Wilson River Bridge (1931), near Tillamook, Washington, and others like it in Washington were designed by notable architect Conde McCullough, who had been employed at Marsh Engineering Company during the 1910s.

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