{"nrhp_refnum":"78003459","name":"Rexleigh Covered Bridge","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Off NY 22","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jackson","county":"Washington County","state":"NY","lat":43.136536885000055,"lon":-73.35512267099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-03-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-span wooden Howe truss covered highway bridge, built in 1874 over the Batten Kill at Rexleigh in the town of Jackson, Washington County, New York. It is 107 feet long and carries two lanes.","why_significant":"The bridge is described as a rare surviving example of a once-common transportation structure in New York State. It illustrates how standard engineering designs were adapted to rural bridge-building during America's wooden age. It was built of standard sawed timbers, iron tension rods and cast-iron bearing blocks, a type of prefabricated nineteenth-century construction.","narrative":"Spanning the Batten Kill at Rexleigh, in the town of Jackson, Washington County, New York, this covered bridge was built in 1874 as a highway crossing. It is a single 107-foot Howe truss span, 16 feet wide between curbs, carrying two lanes. The structure combines timber and iron: laminated timber top and bottom chords, paired 8x8 timber diagonals, vertical iron tension rods, and stone and concrete abutments. Cast-iron bearing blocks are also part of its construction. The bridge originally gave access across the stream to a water-powered factory on the north bank, now in ruins. It was listed because it is a rare survivor of a bridge type once common across New York, showing how standard engineering designs were adapted to rural needs in the wooden age. The inventory notes it was closed to traffic and that scouring of the abutments posed a threat, and later correspondence records a dispute over matching grant funds for repairs.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect: William Howe patent truss (1840); builder unknown","architectural_style":"Howe truss","criteria":[],"status_note":"Inventory form lists present use as the same as original (highway bridge) but notes it was closed to traffic; scouring of abutments listed as a threat. A 1978 letter reports the county committee voted against matching restoration grant money, raising the prospect of demolition.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.875514-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/78003459.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003459/62a95da23a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003459/62a95da23a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rexleigh_Covered_Bridge_Dec_10.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rexleigh_Covered_Bridge_Dec_10.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315439","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexleigh_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14629041"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/washington-county/rexleigh-covered-bridge-78003459/"}