Hyde Hall Bridge

Hyde Hall Bridge is a wooden covered bridge built in 1825 on then-private property of Hyde Hall, a country mansion. Both are now included in Glimmerglass State Park. With the possible exception of the Hassenplug Bridge in Pennsylvania (also built in 1825), it is the oldest documented, existing covered bridge in the United States. The World Guide to Covered Bridges and its entries of both the National Register of Historic Places and the Historic American Engineering Record list it as being constructed in 1825. The Historic American Buildings Survey entry for it shows an 1830 erection date.

Hyde Hall Bridge
Hyde Hall Bridge in June 2018
Coordinates 42°47′24″N 74°51′50″W
CrossesShadow Brook
Characteristics
DesignBurr Arch Truss
Hyde Hall Covered Bridge
Nearest cityEast Springfield, New York
Coordinates42°47′25″N 74°51′49″W
Built1825
NRHP reference No.98001539 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 17, 1998
Total length53 feet (16 m)

The bridge consists of a single 53-foot (16 m) span using a Burr Arch Truss and was constructed by master carpenter Cyrenus Clark with assistance from carpenter Andrew Alden and stonemason Lorenzo Bates. Renovations to the bridge were performed by the State of New York in 1967.[2]

It is one of 29 historic covered bridges in New York State.

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. "Hyde Hall". New York Covered Bridge Society. Retrieved 16 February 2014.


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