{"nrhp_refnum":"80003462","name":"Bartram's Covered Bridge","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"W of Newtown on LR 15098, Willistown/Newtown Townships","address_restricted":false,"city":"Media","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":39.98993878600004,"lon":-75.43724236599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-12-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A covered bridge of Burr truss type over Crum Creek, spanning the boundary area of Willistown Township in Chester County and Newtown Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It is 60 feet long and 13 feet wide and was built in 1860 by Ferdinand Wood.","why_significant":"The bridge has unique slanted plank portals, which the nomination describes as the only bridge in Pennsylvania with this design. It is also the only covered bridge remaining partly in Delaware County, a county that once had 30 covered bridges. It was closed to traffic in 1941 and later preserved and restored in 1970 by a local historical society and concerned citizens.","narrative":"Bartram's Covered Bridge is a Burr truss structure crossing Crum Creek on the boundary between Chester and Delaware Counties in Pennsylvania. Ferdinand Wood built it in 1860. It measures 60 feet in length and 13 feet in width. The bridge is distinguished by its unusual slanted plank portals, a feature the nomination states is found on no other bridge in Pennsylvania. It is also the only covered bridge that remains partly in Delaware County, a county that once had thirty covered bridges. Traffic was halted on the bridge in 1941. A local historical society and concerned citizens preserved and restored it in 1970. The bridge is one of a group of covered bridges in Chester County documented in a thematic nomination covering the county's surviving examples of nineteenth-century wooden bridge construction.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Ferdinand Wood (builder)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good; closed to traffic in 1941, later preserved and restored in 1970.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.53147-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003462.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003462/cb0a89b7be-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003462/cb0a89b7be-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"User:Smallbones at English Wikipedia.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BartramBridge.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Smallbones at English Wikipedia.</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BartramBridge.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992770","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartram%27s_Covered_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4865783"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/bartrams-covered-bridge-80003462/"}