Gudgeonville Covered Bridge | |
|---|---|
 The bridge before its destruction, July 2008 | |
| Coordinates | 41°58′56″N 80°16′01″W / 41.98222°N 80.26694°W |
| Carried | Township 400 |
| Crossed | Elk Creek |
| Locale | Erie, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Official name | Gudgeonville Covered Bridge |
| Other name(s) | Gudgeonville Road |
| Maintained by | Girard Township |
| NBI Number | 257207040040080 |
| Characteristics | |
| Total length | 84 ft (26 m)[1] |
| Width | 14 ft (4.3 m)[1] |
| Height | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
| Load limit | 4.5 t (5.0 short tons) |
| History | |
| Constructed by | William Sherman |
| Built | 1868 |
| Destroyed | November 8, 2008 |
| MPS | Covered Bridges of Erie County TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 80003491 |
| Added to NRHP | September 17, 1980 |
| Location | |
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The Gudgeonville Covered Bridge was an 84-foot (25.6 m) long Multiple King-post Truss covered bridge over Elk Creek in Girard Township, Erie County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It was built in 1868 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 1980.[2] It was destroyed by arson on November 8, 2008.
It was the oldest of the three remaining covered bridges in Erie County. The bridge structure's sufficiency rating on the Federal Highway Administration National Bridge Inventory was only 14.6 percent and its condition was deemed "basically intolerable requiring high priority of corrective action".
- ^ a b Federal Highway Administration (2007). "Place Name: Girard (Township of), Pennsylvania; NBI Structure Number: 257207040040080; Facility Carried: T-400, Gudgeonville; Feature Intersected: Elk Creek". Nationalbridges.com (Alexander Svirsky). Archived from the original on October 5, 2008. Retrieved September 14, 2007. Note: this is a formatted scrape of the 2006 official website, which can be found here for Pennsylvania: "PA06.txt". Federal Highway Administration. 2006. Retrieved June 7, 2008.
- ^ Claridge, John R. (December 27, 1979). "Gudgeonville Covered Bridge" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places—Nomination Form. Erie. Retrieved January 13, 2010.