Crosses Shadow Brook Opened 1825 Bridge type Burr Truss | Design Burr Arch Truss Total length 16 m Added to NRHP 17 December 1998 | |
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Nearest city East Springfield, New York Similar Hyde Hall, Glimmerglass State Park, Perrine's Bridge, Old Blenheim Bridge, Copeland Bridge | ||
Hyde Hall Bridge is a wooden covered bridge built in 1825 on then-private property of Hyde Hall, a country mansion. Both are now included in Glimmerglass State Park. With the possible exception of the Hassenplug Bridge in Pennsylvania (also built in 1825), it is the oldest documented, existing covered bridge in the United States. The World Guide to Covered Bridges and its entries of both the National Register of Historic Places and the Historic American Engineering Record list it as being constructed in 1825. The Historic American Buildings Survey entry for it shows an 1830 erection date.
The bridge consists of a single 53-foot (16 m) span using a Burr Arch Truss and was constructed by master carpenter Cyrenus Clark with assistance from carpenter Andrew Alden and stonemason Lorenzo Bates. Renovations to the bridge were performed by the State of New York in 1967.
It is one of 29 historic covered bridges in New York State.