{"nrhp_refnum":"79002360","name":"Brownlee, Scott, Covered Bridge","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Off PA 231","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Finley","county":"Washington County","state":"PA","lat":40.04403479600006,"lon":-80.39773082099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A kingpost covered bridge carrying a road over Templeton Fork of Wheeling Creek, located off PA 231 near West Finley in Washington County, Pennsylvania. It is one of the covered bridges listed as part of the Covered Bridges of Washington and Greene Counties thematic group.","why_significant":"The nomination treats the group of covered bridges in Washington and Greene Counties as important examples of vernacular wood bridge construction, with a comparatively high survival rate in these rural counties. The bridge is described as illustrating the kingpost truss type and its construction technology. It is listed as part of that thematic group.","narrative":"Over Templeton Fork of Wheeling Creek near West Finley in Washington County, Pennsylvania, stands a covered bridge with a kingpost truss, a vertical board siding and a gable roof. The bridge has an end post length of 31 feet 6 inches and a road surface width of 11 feet 7 inches. Its listing is part of a group of covered bridges in Washington and Greene Counties, which are regarded as important examples of vernacular wood bridge construction. The nomination emphasizes the simplicity of the truss types and the local design features found in these structures. Few bridges of this type survive in the two counties in comparison with earlier numbers, which gives the surviving examples added importance. The bridge is recorded in fair condition. It is one of the few surviving examples of this bridge type in the region, and its setting is considered largely rural. The bridge is among the covered bridges documented in the Washington and Greene County group, several of which were built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition recorded as fair.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.310804-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002360.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002360/cc294912de-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002360/cc294912de-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scott_Brownlee_Covered_Bridge_site.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scott_Brownlee_Covered_Bridge_site.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993999","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Brownlee_Covered_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7436054"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/washington-county/brownlee-scott-covered-bridge-79002360/"}