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Glessner Bridge

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Built
  
1881

Opened
  
1881

Body of water
  
Stonycreek River

NRHP Reference #
  
80003631

Area
  
400 m²

Added to NRHP
  
10 December 1980

Glessner Bridge

Location
  
Northwest of Shanksville off Legislative Route 55068, Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania

Architectural style
  
Other, Multiple Kingpost

MPS
  
Covered Bridges of Somerset County TR

Similar
  
Trostletown Bridge, New Balti Bridge, Lower Humbert Covered, Packsaddle Bridge, Barronvale Bridge

Glessner bridge


The Glessner Bridge is a historic covered bridge in Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1881, and is a 90-foot-long (27 m), long-multiple Kingpost truss bridge, with half-height plank siding and a tin covered gable roof. The bridge crosses Stonycreek River. It is one of 10 covered bridges in Somerset County.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

References

Glessner Bridge Wikipedia