Thomas Mill Covered Bridge
Thomas Mill Covered Bridge | |
Location | Thomas Mill Rd., Wissahickon Valley Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 40°4′18″N 75°13′33″W / 40.07167°N 75.22583°WCoordinates: 40°4′18″N 75°13′33″W / 40.07167°N 75.22583°W |
Built | 1855 |
MPS | Covered Bridges of the Delaware River Watershed TR |
NRHP reference No. | 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.
Bridge in 2010
HABS drawing
References[]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Bridges". Friends of the Wissahickon. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
External links[]
- Media related to Thomas Mill Covered Bridge at Wikimedia Commons
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-19, "Covered Bridge, Thomas Mill Road (Spanning Wissahickon Creek), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA", 2 photos, 1 color transparency, 2 measured drawings, 2 photo caption pages
- 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
Categories:
- Covered bridges in Pennsylvania
- Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
- Historic American Buildings Survey in Philadelphia
- 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
- Historic district contributing properties in Pennsylvania
- Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Howe truss bridges in the United States
- Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Registered Historic Place stubs
- Pennsylvania bridge (structure) stubs