{"nrhp_refnum":"79003184","name":"Jud Christie Covered Bridge No. 95","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"SR 685","address_restricted":false,"city":"Millville","county":"Columbia County","state":"PA","lat":41.19600043500003,"lon":-76.47291724799999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-11-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A covered wooden bridge spanning 55.9 feet with a roadway width of 12.66 feet and 11-foot clearance, located in Millville, Columbia County, Pennsylvania. It is built in a queen post truss design with stone and mortar abutments.","why_significant":"The bridge is a surviving example of the covered bridges that served the growing county towns and the farming, saw and grist mill activity that depended on road transport. The form notes that covered bridges have not been built in Columbia County within the last half century, so the county's surviving bridge engineering is regarded as unique. It is nominated under the transportation and engineering areas.","narrative":"Millville's Jud Christie Covered Bridge is a wooden covered span measuring 55.9 feet long, with a roadway 12.66 feet wide and 11 feet of clearance. It was built by William L. Lanning and uses a queen post design, with two long diagonal braces on either side of a central iron tension rod. The wall coverings are board and batten, and the abutments are made entirely of stone and mortar. Oak, pine or hemlock was the usual lumber for bridges of this kind. Covered bridges followed open wooden bridges because their longer lives suited a county where town growth and farming, saw mills and grist mills required reliable crossings. Columbia County's covered bridges use several truss types, including the queen post used for longer spans. The bridge is regarded as a significant example of the county's transportation engineering, since no covered bridges of this kind have been built there in the last fifty years.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William L. Lanning (builder)","architectural_style":"Queen post truss","criteria":[],"status_note":"The bridge is described as being in excellent condition with no steel beams added.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.239199-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79003184.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003184/b849e30501-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003184/b849e30501-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ruhrfisch","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jud_Christian_Covered_Bridge_1.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruhrfisch</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jud_Christian_Covered_Bridge_1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992828","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jud_Christie_Covered_Bridge_No._95","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6302029"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/columbia-county/jud-christie-covered-bridge-no-95-79003184/"}