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The Old Covered Bridge is a circa 1941 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 81 and signed "Moses". It has been in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum since 1957. [1]
This 86.5-foot-long (26.4 m), 18.66-foot-wide (5.69 m), Howe truss bridge was built in 1855. It was renovated by the Works Progress Administration in 1939, and by the city of Philadelphia in 2000. [2] It is the only remaining covered bridge in Philadelphia and is the only covered bridge in a major US city.
A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure. [1] The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather.
The bridge, per the National Register of Historic Places, is officially called Lee’s Creek Covered Bridge given its position over Lee’s Creek, but it’s more widely known in Mason County as ...
Peter Paddleford (1785–1859) was a covered bridge builder who designed a new wooden bridge truss, one he never patented. The design was used widely throughout New Hampshire, Maine, and Eastern Vermont during much of the 19th century.
Hopkins Covered Bridge. Sheldon & Savannah Jewett were brothers who built covered bridges, including of the Town lattice design. A number of their works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [1] Works include (attribution): Comstock Covered Bridge, off VT 118 over Trout River Montgomery, VT Jewett, Sheldon & Savannah
The pont Leclerc is a covered bridge in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada. Among the last in Quebec, 34 covered bridges were constructed in Abitibi, and are associated with the colonisation of the region in the early 1900s. Today fewer than half of them are extant. The single-lane bridge is of Lattice truss bridge design.
Only bridge in the US using this design [6] Pisgah Community Covered Bridge [1] Randolph: Pisgah: ca. 1910: 51 feet (16 m) Upper branch of the Little River Private: Modified queen: Will Henry Stevens Covered Bridge [7]: 61 Macon: Highlands