{"nrhp_refnum":"80003472","name":"Glen Hope Covered Bridge","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"W of Lewisville on T 344, Elk Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Grove","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":39.72700178400004,"lon":-75.90746440499998,"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 wooden bridge of the Burr truss type carrying T344 over Little Elk Creek in Elk Township, southwest of West Grove, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1889 and is owned by Chester County.","why_significant":"The bridge is listed as one of the covered bridges of Chester County, a group of eight new listings that the document says are good examples of mid-to-late nineteenth century bridge construction. The nomination notes its significance in early transportation history in the county. Its Burr truss design and construction by a local carpenter and stonecutter are presented as representative of that tradition.","narrative":"Built in 1889 over Little Elk Creek in Elk Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, the Glen Hope Covered Bridge is a Burr truss structure measuring 65 feet long and 16 feet wide. Menander Wood built the woodwork for $994, and George E. Jones, a skilled marble and granite cutter, did the stonework for $773, bringing the total cost to $1,767. The bridge stands at Anderson's Ford, named for a local farmer, John Anderson, and lies about half a mile from the Maryland-Pennsylvania border. It is owned by Chester County and is recorded as being in good condition. It is one of a group of covered bridges in the county that is regarded as a good example of nineteenth-century transportation construction, and it was included as part of a multiple-property grouping of the county's covered bridges.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Menander Wood and George E. Jones (builders)","architectural_style":"Burr truss","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition recorded as good","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.69858-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003472.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003472/9b5bad59a7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003472/9b5bad59a7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glen_Hope_Bridge.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones at English Wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glen_Hope_Bridge.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992688","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Hope_Covered_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5567816"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/glen-hope-covered-bridge-80003472/"}