Barrackville Covered Bridge, Spanning Buffalo Creek on Pike Street , Barrackville, Marion County, WV

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23 b&w photos
30 data pages
3 photo caption pages
1 color transparencies

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TITLE:
Barrackville Covered Bridge, Spanning Buffalo Creek on Pike Street , Barrackville, Marion County, WV

CALL NUMBER:
HAER WVA,25-BARAC,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 3 (24 x 36 in.)
Photo(s): 23 (4 x 5 in. and 5 x 7)
Data Page(s): 29 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 3
Color Transparencies: 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER WV-8

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-13).

Building/structure dates: 1853 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1872 subsequent work

Building/structure dates: 1934 subsequent work

Building/structure dates: 1975 subsequent work

Building/structure dates: 1999 subsequent work

Significance: The Barrackville Covered Bridge was built in 1853 as part of the Fairmont & Wheeling Turnpike. It is architecturally significant as an outstanding example of a Burr arch-truss, a system patented by Theodore Burr in 1817. It is one of three surviving examples of the work of Lemuel Chenowith, a prolific West Virginia builder. // Built as part of Virginia's network of turnpikes linking the Tidewater to the Trans-Allegheny regions, this example of the Burr truss demonstrates the high level of craftsmanship and knowledge of contemporary engineering design that went into many covered bridges.

SUBJECTS:
WEST VIRGINIA--Marion County--Barrackville
covered bridges
transportation

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.wv0139

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. William E. Barrett, Photographer, November 1972. GENERAL VIEW LOOKING WEST.
2. William E. Barrett, Photographer, November 1972. THREE-FOURTHS VIEW LOOKING SOUTHEAST.
3. William E. Barrett, Photographer, November 1972. SOUTH PORTAL LOOKING NORTH.
4. William E. Barrett, Photographer, November 1972. DETAIL: CONNECTION OF VERTICAL TO ARCH RIBS BELOW DECK.
5. William E. Barrett, Photographer, November 1972. DETAIL: JOINT BETWEEN TRUSS AND ABUTMENT.
6. William E. Barrett, Photographer, 1978. 220 PORTRAIT FROM HILL AND INCLUDING RR.
7. William E. Barrett, Photographer, 1978. 120 ANGLE BROADSIDE VIEW, INCLUDING LITTLE WINDOWS.
8. William E. Barrett, Photographer, 1978. 15 ABUTMENT DETAIL UNDER BRIDGE, RR SIDE.
9. William E. Barrett, Photographer, 1978. INTERIOR, TRUSS DETAIL AND AREA.
CONTEXTUAL VIEW FROM SOUTH, LOOKING NORTH.
SOUTH PORTAL. NOTE PROJECTING PEDIMENT AND PILASTER MOLDING ON OUTER FACE OF ENDPOST.
PERSPECTIVE, LOOKING WEST. BRIDGE CLAD IN CLAPBOARD SIDING TO ABOUT 2' BELOW THE EAVES. STANDING-SEAM METAL ROOFING COVERS GABLE ROOF.
NORTH PORTAL.
PERSPECTIVE, EAST ELEVATION, LOOKING SOUTHSOUTHWEST.
PERSPECTIVE, FROM NORTHWEST. NOTE HOW ARCH SPRINGS FROM STONE SKEWBACKS ON FACEWALL OF ABUTMENTS.
PANORAMA.
PANORAMA.
PANORAMA.
NORTH ABUTMENT. NOTE RAILROAD STIFFENERS, TRUNNELS, AND DIAGONAL FLOOR BEAMS WITH DIAGONAL FLOORING.
DETAIL, BASE OF ARCH.
CENTER BEARING, CENTER OF ARCH, EAST PANEL.
VIEW SOUTH INTERIOR.
PANEL DETAIL, NORTHWEST CORNER.
PERSPECTIVE, EAST ELEVATION, LOOKING SOUTH-SOUTHWEST.

CONTROL #:
WV0139

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