Shushan Covered Bridge | |
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| Location | Spans Batten Kill off NY 22,Shushan, New York |
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| Coordinates | 43°5′28″N73°20′45″W / 43.09111°N 73.34583°W /43.09111; -73.34583 |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | 1858 |
| Architect | Stevens, Milton |
| Architectural style | Town lattice plank truss |
| MPS | Covered Bridges of Washington County TR / Buskirk, Rexleigh, Eagleville, and Shushan Covered Bridges[2] |
| NRHP reference No. | 78003460[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 8, 1978 |
Shushan Bridge is acovered bridge over theBatten Kill in the hamlet ofShushan inWashington County, New York, nearVermont. It is one of 29 surviving historiccovered bridges in New York State and one of 4 surviving in Washington County.
It was built in 1858 by builder Milton Stevens.
Town andHowe truss designs were patented byIthiel Town in 1820 andWilliam Howe in 1840, respectively.[2] The Shushan Bridge employs "the patented Town lattice truss, consisting of top and bottom chords of laminated wood plank, and a web of diagonal wood planks connected by wood trunnels at each point of intersection".[2]
It was individually inventoried by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in 1977.[3]
It is one of four Washington County covered bridges submitted for listing in theNational Register of Historic Places in one multiple property submission.[2] The others are theBuskirk Bridge, theRexleigh Bridge, and theEagleville Bridge. All four were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 8, 1972.[1]
The Shushan bridge was closed to traffic in 1962, and was left abandoned for 10 years, then saved by local preservation efforts. Now it is operated as a seasonal museum.
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