Spencerville Covered Bridge
Spencerville Covered Bridge | |
Spencerville Covered Bridge, August 2007 | |
41°16′53″N 84°54′51″W / 41.28139°N 84.91417°W / 41.28139; -84.91417 | |
Area | less than one acre |
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Built | 1873 (1873) |
Built by | Mckay, John |
Architectural style | Smith Type 4 Truss |
NRHP reference No. | 81000010[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 2, 1981 |
Spencerville Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge located at Spencerville, Spencer Township, DeKalb County, Indiana. It was built in 1873, and spans the St. Joseph River. It is a Smith Type 4 truss bridge on concrete piers. It measures 146 feet long and topped by a gable roof and sided with board-and-batten siding. It one of only six remaining Smith trusses in Indiana.[2]: 2–3
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.[1]
The Spencerville Covered Bridge was identified as a top priority among the thousands of rural bridges in the United States worthy of repair in President Biden's “American Jobs Plan” proposed on March 31, 2021.[3] The Bill must first be approved by The US Congress, including votes by Indiana's 3rd Congressional District Representative Jim Banks and US Senators Todd Young and Mike Braun.
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2015-08-01. Note: This includes Mary Pifer Mountz and John Martin Smith (December 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Spencerville Covered Bridge" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-08-01. and Accompanying photographs.
- ^ Rojas, Rick. "Seven Infrastructure Problems in Urgent Need of Fixing » New York Times, April 2, 2021". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
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