National Register of Historic Places
Nansen Ski Jump
Milan, Coos County, New Hampshire
The record
- Listed
- July 12, 2019
- Type
- Structure
- Address
- 83 Milan Rd., Milan
- County
- Coos
- State
- New Hampshire
- Contributing resources
- 1 building, 4 structures
- Coordinates
- 44.53346, -71.17123
- Reference number
- 100004084
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The story
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The Nansen Ski Jump is a ski jump structure at 83 Milan Rd. in Milan, Coos County, built between 1936 and 1938 and listed in the National Register in 2019. Ed Willey served as engineer, and Hussey Manufacturing Company was the architect.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with criteria consideration G and national and state level significance in entertainment and recreation, social history, politics and government, and engineering. Its period of significance runs from 1936 to 1972, reflecting the start of construction in 1936.
Physical character
The steel inrun tower stands about 171 feet tall on four square steel lattice legs, topped by a steel-frame, wood judge's hut with a deck 14 feet wide. Below it, a roughly 260-foot inrun leads down a natural landing hill with a 225-foot vertical drop and an outrun, past a terraced spectator area to a parking lot.
Historical context
The Nansen Ski Club, organized in 1907, hosted four U.S. National Ski Jumping Championships between 1939 and 1972, and Fridtjof Nansen visited in 1929. In 1941 Torger Tokle set a North American record of 288 feet there, and the jump, restored to operable condition in 2017, was last used that March.