Hyde Hall Bridge is a wooden

covered bridge A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure. The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather. Uncovered woo ...

over Shadow Brook built in 1825, on then-private property of

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, a country mansion. Both are now included in

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. With the possible exception of the Hassenplug Bridge in

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(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

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and the

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list it as being constructed in 1825. The

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entry for it shows an 1830 erection date. The bridge consists of a single span using a

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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

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in 1967. It is one of 29 historic covered bridges in New York State.

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