{"nrhp_refnum":"79003194","name":"Kramer Covered Bridge No. 113","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"SR 572","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rohrsburg","county":"Columbia County","state":"PA","lat":41.121123623000074,"lon":-76.43193147799997,"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":"Kramer Covered Bridge No. 113 is a covered bridge near Rohrsburg in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, 50 feet long with a roadway width of 13.66 feet and a clearance of 11 feet. It is built as a simple queen post truss.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the bridge is significant under engineering and transportation. Covered bridges in Columbia County use King Post, Warren Truss, Queen Post, Theodore Burr or Howe Truss designs, and the form is described as unique because no covered bridges have been built in the county for the last half century. Bridges were needed to serve rapidly growing towns and to link farming, saw and grist mills.","narrative":"Kramer Covered Bridge No. 113 is a 50-foot covered bridge near Rohrsburg in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, with a roadway 13.66 feet wide and 11 feet of clearance. It is built on a simple queen post truss, with a metal roof laid on wooden ribs across the rafters and an arched portal topped by a triangular area of vertical boards. The walls are board and batten, and the floor carries horizontal boards under two runways. Builder C.W. Eves is credited with its construction. Its importance lies in engineering and transportation. Columbia County's covered bridges use several truss types, including King Post, Warren, Queen Post, Theodore Burr and Howe designs, selected by span length. Bridges such as this one were needed as towns grew and as farms, saw mills and grist mills required links between them. Because the county has built no covered bridges for about fifty years, the surviving examples of this design and engineering are regarded as distinctive.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"C.W. Eves (builder)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Abutments were repaired with concrete, though a large part of one abutment and the approach wall of another remain original stone and mortar; some wall boards and battens are missing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.547644-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79003194.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003194/339a0408ba-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003194/339a0408ba-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ruhrfisch","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kramer_Covered_Bridge_8.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:Kramer_Covered_Bridge_8.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992832","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramer_Covered_Bridge_No._113","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6436023"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/columbia-county/kramer-covered-bridge-no-113-79003194/"}