{"nrhp_refnum":"80003464","name":"Speakman No. 1","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"S of Coatesville on LR 15068, East Fallowfield Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Modena","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":39.929456627000036,"lon":-75.82260074599998,"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 burr arch bridge over Buck Run in a remote valley of East Fallowfield Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is listed as part of the Covered Bridges of Chester County multiple property group.","why_significant":"The document describes the bridge as one of eight covered bridge listings in the county group, all regarded as good examples of mid-to-late 19th-century covered bridge construction. It originally served the Jonathan Speakman grist mill, which had been converted from a papermill in 1870.","narrative":"Built in 1881 over Buck Run in East Fallowfield Township, Chester County, this burr arch covered bridge is 75 feet long and 14 feet wide. Its builders were Meanander and Ferdinand Wood. The bridge stands in a remote valley and originally carried traffic serving the Jonathan Speakman grist mill, a building that had been converted from a papermill to a grist mill in 1870. The total construction cost was recorded as $2,000. It lies about 1.5 miles from the Speakman No. 2 bridge, another covered span in the same group. The county owns the structure, and its condition was recorded as good. Its inclusion rests on its role as a representative example of covered bridge construction in Chester County from the mid-to-late nineteenth century, a building type that the county group illustrates through several surviving examples of the burr arch and related truss forms.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Meanander and Ferdinand Wood (builders)","architectural_style":"Burr arch truss","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition recorded as good.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.372284-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003464.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003464/ef2da51129-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003464/ef2da51129-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Speakman_Covered_Bridge_1.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Speakman_Covered_Bridge_1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992684","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakman_No._1","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7574355"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/speakman-no-1-80003464/"}