Thomas Mill Covered Bridge
Thomas Mill Covered Bridge
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Thomas Mill Covered Bridge in 1972
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Location | Thomas Mill Rd., Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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Built | 1855 |
Architect | Unknown |
Architectural style | Other |
MPS | Covered Bridges of the Delaware River Watershed TR |
NRHP Reference # | 80003621[1] |
Added to NRHP | December 1, 1980 |
The Thomas Mill Covered Bridge, aka the Thomas Mill Bridge or the Thomas Mill Road Covered Bridge, is a historic, single-span, wooden covered bridge across the Wissahickon Creek in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The 86.5-foot-long (26.4 m), 18.66-foot-wide (5.69 m), Howe-truss bridge was built in 1855. It was renovated by the Works Progress Administration in 1939, and by the City of Philadelphia in 2000.[2]
It is the only remaining covered bridge in Philadelphia and is the only covered bridge in a major US city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is a Contributing Property of the Chestnut Hill Historic District.
The bridge is open to pedestrian traffic.
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Thomas Mill CB HABS.jpg
HABS drawing
References
External links
- Listing, drawings, and photographs at the Historic American Buildings Survey
- Article at Drexel University
- "A Bridge Too Old", by Amy Choi, Philadelphia Citypaper, August 27–September 3, 1998
- Listing at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
- Listing and photographs at BridgeHunter.com
- Bridges of the Wissahickon, Friends of the Wissahickon
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- Historic district contributing properties in Pennsylvania
- Covered bridges in Pennsylvania
- Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Wooden bridges in Pennsylvania
- Works Progress Administration in Pennsylvania
- Bridges completed in 1855
- Road bridges in Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
- Fairmount Park
- Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
- Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Registered Historic Place stubs
- Pennsylvania bridge (structure) stubs