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Coburn Covered Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Coburn Rd. over the Winooski River, East Montpelier, Vermont
Coordinates	44°16′51″N 72°27′18″W / 44.28083°N 72.45500°W / 44.28083; -72.45500
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1851 (1851)
Architectural style	queenpost truss
NRHP reference No.	74000260
Added to NRHP	October 9, 1974

The Coburn Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge, carrying Coburn Road over the Winooski River in eastern East Montpelier, Vermont. Built in 1851, it is the town's only surviving 19th-century covered bridge. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Description and history

The Coburn Covered Bridge stands in far eastern East Montpelier, about 2.7 miles (4.3 km) east of the town center. Coburn Road runs north from United States Route 2, roughly paralleling the south-flowing Winooski River and eventually crossing it. The bridge is oriented east-west, and is a single-span queenpost truss structure with embedded iron rods. It is 69.5 feet (21.2 m) long and 16.5 feet (5.0 m) wide, with a roadway width of 13.5 feet (4.1 m) (one lane), and rests on abutments of concrete and stone faced with concrete. The exterior side walls are sheathed in vertical board siding to a height of about 7 feet (2.1 m). The portals are sheathed to their full height in vertical siding, and have segmented-arch tops. The bridge roof is metal. The roadway deck consists of three steel beams carrying a concrete floor; this is the result of work done in the 1970s.

The bridge was built about 1851, and is the town's only covered bridge.

See also

• Transport portal
• Engineering portal
• National Register of Historic Places portal
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Vermont
• List of covered bridges in Vermont
• List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. ^ Hugh Henry (1974). "NRHP nomination for Coburn Covered Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-10-08. with photos from 1974

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Vermont
National Historic Landmark	Socialist Labor Party Hall Vermont State House
Districts	Barre Downtown Historic District Beck and Beck Granite Shed Currier Park Historic District East Calais Historic District Goddard College Greatwood Campus Kents Corner Historic District Mad River Glen Ski Area Historic District ‡ Mad River Valley Rural Historic District McLaughlin Farm Mill Village Historic District Montpelier Historic District North Calais Village Historic District Plainfield Village Historic District Roxbury Fish Hatchery Vermont State Hospital Historic District Waitsfield Common Historic District Waitsfield Village Historic District Warren Village Historic District Waterbury Village Historic District
Buildings	Aldrich Public Library Allenwood Farm Athenwood and the Thomas W. Wood Studio Barre City Hall and Opera House Central Vermont Railway Depot Colby Mansion College Hall Parley Davis House East Village Meetinghouse Gale-Bancroft House Green Mountain Seminary Italian Baptist Church Jones Brothers Granite Shed Jones–Pestle Farmstead Joslin Farm Lareau Farmstead Chauncey B. Leonard House Martin Covered Bridge Mayo Building National Clothespin Factory Nichols House Old Red Mill Old West Church Reynolds House Scampini Block E. L. Smith Roundhouse Granite Shed Joshua Twing Gristmill Union Co-operative Store Bakery Union Meetinghouse Waterbury Center Methodist Church Wheelock Law Office Theodore Wood House Woodbury Graded School Woodbury Town Hall Worcester Town Hall Worcester Village School
Structures	Bridge 31 Bridge No. 27 Center Road Culvert Coburn Covered Bridge Great Eddy Covered Bridge Lower Cox Brook Covered Bridge Middlesex–Winooski River Bridge Northfield Falls Covered Bridge Pine Brook Covered Bridge Slaughter House Covered Bridge Stony Brook Covered Bridge Upper Cox Brook Covered Bridge Warren Covered Bridge
Footnotes	‡ This historic property also has portions in an adjacent county.
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Vermont and List of National Historic Landmarks in Vermont

• Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
• National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Vermont
• Bridges completed in 1851
• Covered bridges in Washington County, Vermont
• Buildings and structures in East Montpelier, Vermont
• Wooden bridges in Vermont
• Queen post truss bridges in the United States
• Road bridges in Vermont
• 1851 establishments in Vermont