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Ferree Covered Bridge

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architectural style
  
Burr Arch Truss System

Added to NRHP
  
2 February 1983

Built
  
1873 (1873)

Opened
  
1873

Nearest city
  
Base Rd., Rushville, Indiana

Built by
  
Kennedy, Archibald,M. & Emmett L

MPS
  
Kennedy, A. M., House and Covered Bridges of Rush County TR

Ferree Covered Bridge was a historic covered bridge located near Rushville, Rush County, Indiana. It was built in 1873 by Archibald M. Kennedy and his son Emmett. It was a Burr Arch bridge, 87 feet (27 m) long over Little Flat Rock River. The bridge had square portals with articulated corners.

It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1983, as part of a multiple property submission covering six bridges built by the Kennedy family firm. It was delisted in 1990.

References

Ferree Covered Bridge Wikipedia