Spencerville Covered Bridge

United States historic place


Spencerville Covered Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Spencerville Covered Bridge, August 2007
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Location	CR 68, at Spencerville, Spencer Township, DeKalb County, Indiana
Coordinates	41°16′53″N 84°54′51″W / 41.28139°N 84.91417°W / 41.28139; -84.91417
Area	less than one acre
Built	1873 (1873)
Built by	Mckay, John
Architectural style	Smith Type 4 Truss
NRHP reference No.	81000010
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 is one of only six remaining Smith trusses in Indiana.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

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. 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

^ "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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