Spencerville Covered Bridge

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Spencerville Covered Bridge
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Spencerville Covered Bridge, August 2007
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LocationCR 68, at Spencerville, Spencer Township, DeKalb County, Indiana
Coordinates 41°16′53″N84°54′51″W / 41.28139°N 84.91417°W / 41.28139; -84.91417
Arealess than one acre
Built1873 (1873)
Built byMckay, John
Architectural styleSmith Type 4 Truss
NRHP reference No. 81000010 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 2, 1981

Spencerville Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge located at Spencerville, Spencer Township, DeKalb County, Indiana. It was built in 1873, and spans the St. Joseph River. It is a Smith Type 4 truss bridge on concrete piers. It measures 146 feet long and topped by a gable roof and sided with board-and-batten siding. It is one of only six remaining Smith trusses in Indiana. [2] :2–3

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. [1]


The Spencerville Covered Bridge was identified as a top priority among the thousands of rural bridges in the United States worthy of repair in President Biden's “American Jobs Plan” proposed on March 31, 2021. [3] The Bill must first be approved by The US Congress, including votes by Indiana's 3rd Congressional District Representative Jim Banks and US Senators Todd Young and Mike Braun.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2015-08-01.Note: This includes Mary Pifer Mountz and John Martin Smith (December 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Spencerville Covered Bridge" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-08-01. and Accompanying photographs.
  3. Rojas, Rick. "Seven Infrastructure Problems in Urgent Need of Fixing » New York Times, April 2, 2021". The New York Times . Retrieved 2021-04-02.