Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge, Spanning Connecticut River between Cornish, NH, & , Cornish City, Sullivan County, NH

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5 drawings
10 b&w photos
38 data pages
2 photo caption pages
1 color transparencies

TITLE:
Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge, Spanning Connecticut River between Cornish, NH, & , Cornish City, Sullivan County, NH

CALL NUMBER:
HAER NH,10-CORN,2-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 5
Photo(s): 10 (5 x 7 in.)
Data Page(s): 37 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
Color Transparencies: 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER NH-8

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N1001).

Building/structure dates: 1866 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1884 subsequent work

Building/structure dates: 1887 subsequent work

Building/structure dates: 1892 subsequent work

Building/structure dates: 1921 subsequent work

Building/structure dates: 1924 subsequent work

Part of building/structure is in Windsor, Windsor County, VT.

Significance: The Cornish-Windsor Bridge is the longest covered bridge in the U.S. and the second-longest two-span covered bridge in the world. It is an excellent example of the work of James Tasker and Bela Fletcher, two prolific New England bridge builders.

SUBJECTS:
NEW HAMPSHIRE--Sullivan County--Cornish City
covered bridges
wood truss bridges

OTHER TITLE:
Cornish Bridge

COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.nh0177

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. GENERAL ELEVATION VIEW, LOOKING SOUTH
2. GENERAL 3/4 ELEVATION VIEW, LOOKING NORTHWEST, FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE SIDE OF RIVER
3. GENERAL VIEW, LOOKING WEST, SHOWING BRIDGE, ABUTMENT AND PIER
4. GENERAL 'BARREL SHOT', LOOKING WEST FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE
5. DETAIL VIEW OF PORTAL AT VERMONT END OF BRIDGE
6. GENERAL 3/4 ELEVATION VIEW, LOOKING SOUTHWEST
7. GENERAL ELEVATION VIEW, LOOKING NORTH
8. DETAIL VIEW, LOOKING WEST, SHOWING UNDERSIDE OF BRIDGE
9. DETAIL VIEW OF UNDERSIDE OF BRIDGE, SHOWING LATERAL BRACING AND STRINGERS
10. GENERAL INTERIOR VIEW SHOWING LATTICE TRUSS
GENERAL 3/4 ELEVATION VIEW, LOOKING NORTHWEST, FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE SIDE OF RIVER.

CONTROL #:
NH0177

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