COVERED BRIDGE CONFERENCE
Annotated Bibliography
By Lois Coulter
ADAMS,
Kramer
COVERED BRIDGES OF THE WEST: A HISTORY AND ILLUSTRATED GUIDE:
WASHINGTON, OREGON, CALIFORNIA
Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 1963. ISBN:1199541494;146 pp.
200 photos, with numerous maps, charts, and diagrams
Entertaining and nostalgic guide to some 120 housed timber truss
bridges, whose gracefully buttressed picturesque wooden covers were primarily
intended as protection for their supporting structures. Includes maps and
directions to each of these historic architectural treasures still surviving in
the three Pacific Coast states. Bridge architecture boards, CB endpapers,
chapters on bridges west, the toll takers, roofs over rivers, trusses-what,
when and Howe, Paul Bunyan's toothpicks, hell and high water, the end begins,
and covered bridge country, followed by glossary, western records,
bibliography, state-by-state guide, many photos and illustrations, index.
ALLEN,
Richard Sanders
COVERED BRIDGES OF THE SOUTH
Bonanza Books 1970, ISBN:0517128470; 56 pages
Book about the covered bridges in North Carolina, Georgia, Texas,
Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, South Carolina, & Kentucky
COVERED BRIDGES OF THE MIDDLE WEST
Bonanza Books, 1970, ISBN:0828901058; 145 pages, includes: appendices, select bibliography, glossary,
index, illustrations
Includes bridges in Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas,
COVERED BRIDGES OF THE NORTHEAST
Brattleboro, TN: Stephen Greene Press, 1957 reprinted 1974, ISBN:082890202X; 121 pages
A brief history of covered bridges, their engineering and
construction and the part they played in the economy and transport of people
and goods in the developing years of America, over 150 pictures, diagrams and
maps
COVERED BRIDGES OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES: THEIR
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY IN WAR AND PEACE
The Stephen Greene Press, 1959, ISBN:0517128764; 120
pages
Illustrated with b/w photos of the known bridges in Delaware,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia,
plus documentation on some that are no longer there. Appendices on the types of
bridges (names and sketch of stress members); individual maps and listings of
the existing spans in each state along with over 100 illustrations. Includes:
index, glossary, selected bibliography, appendix, tabulation of existing
covered bridges
RARE OLD COVERED BRIDGES OF WINDSOR COUNTY VERMONT
Illustrated by Photographs, Brattleboro VT: Book Cellar,
1962
ANDERSON,
Stott
GUIDE TO THE COVERED BRIDGES OF NEW YORK STATE
Stott Anderson: 1962. First edition, printed privately, 38
pages
each page has a picture of the covered bridge, with all verifiable
information, i.e., the engineer and date built. In almost all cases, a map
accompanies the photograph, placed below the photo and statistics.
BARNA, Ed
COVERED BRIDGES OF VERMONT, Woodstock, Vermont Countryman Press
1996; B&W Photographs; ISBN:0881503738; 216 pages
BLASER, Werner
WOODEN BRIDGES IN SWITZERLAND
editions Birkhauser, Basel, 1982
historical description and photos of representative bridges, English, French and German text
CLOUSIAU, Eric
DES TOITS SUR LES RIVI»RES, LES PONTS COUVERTS DE CANADA DE
LíEST
Les editions Hurtubise HMH LtÈe 2000
French language publication
COCKERILL, Bill and Nick
ROOFS OVER RIVERS: THE NEW GUIDE TO OREGON'S COVERED BRIDGES, Salem, OR: Oregon
Sentinel Publishing; no date, estimated 1990
Chapters include: Benton County history and tours, Deschutes
County history and tour, Douglas County history and tours, Jackson County history
and tours, Josephine County history and tour, Lane County history and tours,
Lincoln County history and tours, Linn County history and tours, Marion County
history and tour, Polk County history and tours, why bridges are covered, How
it all began, Oregon's first covered bridge and more. Illustrated throughout
with black & white photographs & maps.
CONGDON, Herbert
THE COVERED BRIDGE: AN OLD AMERICAN LANDMARK WHOSE ROMANCE,
STABILITY, AND CRAFTSMANSHIP ARE TYPIFIED BY THE STRUCTURES REMAINING IN VERMONT
Vermont Books, 1973. ISBN:0-911570-05-5; 151pp. With
100 photos of Vermont bridges by Edmund Royce.
Second Prinitng New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946;
First edition Steven
Daye Press 1941, 151 pages,
B&W photographs, illustrated study of Vermont's covered
bridges, arranged by county. Separate section at the end discusses various
types of trusses used. Indexed.
DE VITO, Michael C
CONNECTICUT'S OLD TIMBERED CROSSINGS
Warehouse Point, CT: De Vito Enterprises, 1964; 71 pages
The covered bridges of Connecticut; more than 125 examples. B/w
photographs, folding b/w map.
FRENCH, Thomas L. Jr. and Edward L.
COVERED BRIDGES OF GEORGIA
Columbus, Georgia: Frenco Company, 1984; 96 pages
includes a comprehensive view of the early builders and designers,
introduces readers to Georgia's master bridge builder, Horace King, as well as
others, and follows with a pictorial essay of the 17 covered bridges remaining
in the state at the time of publication
GILLIS, Stephen, and GILLIS, John
NO FASTER THAN A WALK: THE COVERED BRIDGES OF NEW BRUNSWICK
Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton, NB, 1997.
Second edition of 1988 book; ISBN:0864920911; 101 pages
Appendixes listing and depicting standing covered bridges and
bridges no longer in existence, bibliography. The most informative work to be
published on New Brunswick's covered bridges, how they were constructed, and
how used by the public.
GRISWALD, Morley, S.
COVERED BRIDGES OF CALIFORNIA,
Berkley, University of
California Press, 1938 92pp. B/w photos, map
excellent inventory of California Covered Bridges
HARRINGTON,
Lyn & Richard
COVERED BRIDGES OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN CANADA
Toronto, Montreal, New York. McGraw-Hill Ryerson. 1976, ISBN:0070824061; 88 pages, with 4 colour plates and 58 plates and
illustrations, location indexes
HOJIMA, Yoshio (Shima)
1995
Nice
photographs and diagrams of North American bridges, Japanese language
publication
McKEE,
Brian J. and American Society of Civil Engineers Staff; HISTORIC AMERICAN
COVERED BRIDGES
New York: Am. Society of Civil Engineers/Oxford Univ. Pr. 1997. ISBN:0195213351; 152 pages
Photographic record in full color of 138 selected historic covered
bridges in the US and Canada, with detailed truss diagrams, basic construction
details and location information. Complete index of the nearly 1,000 surviving
bridges.
NELSON,
Joseph C.
SPANNING TIME VERMONT'S COVERED BRIDGES
Shelburne, Vermont: New England Press 1997. ISBN: 1881535258; 271 pages includes
bibliography and glossary
NELSON, Lee
H.
A CENTURY OF OREGON COVERED BRIDGES 1851-1952
Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1960.
A history of Oregon covered bridges, their beginnings, development
& decline, with some mention of the builders & techniques; illustrated
with old views & the author's photographs. Reprinted from Oregon Historical
Quarterly.
New
Hampshire Department Of Transportation (compiled and edited by)
NEW HAMPSHIRE COVERED BRIDGES: A LINK WITH OUR PAST
Nashua, NH; NH Department Of Transportation 2000; Color
Photographs, 127 pages. Illustrated by Arthur F. Rounds. Second Edition.
Carefully researched and good basic facts
PETERSON,
Hegen
KISSING BRIDGES
Brattleboro, Vermont: The Stephen Greene Press, 1965. Vermont,
USA; ISBN:111795840X;
48 pages with index to other covered bridges.
The photos and illustrations are from the collection of Richard
Sanders Allen. These bridges were touted as masterpieces of engineering-but
horse and buggy America called them "Kissing Bridges". The book is a
fine balance of history and fact, legend and lore, the complete covered bridge
book containing photos, art, and memorabilia.
PIERCE,
Leola B.
COVERED BRIDGES IN VIRGINIA, 2002, Upstream Press; ISBN:097010586X; 165 pages
SLOANE, Eric
AMERICAN BARNS AND COVERED BRIDGES,
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1954, reprint 2002; ISBN: 0486425614; 112 pgs
Classic work on the history, construction, types, of barns and
covered bridges. Includes a census of covered bridges in the summer of 1954.
Full of detailed line drawings, showing the tools, construction and beauty of
the barns and covered bridges throughout America. From the 'Author's Note:
"This book of sketches and comment is designed to lift the old barn and
covered bridge out of the category of quaintness and the antique curiosity and
to secure for them a rightful place in the story of architecture so that we may
better see and feel the fine fabric of American development. ...In the country
the old tunes sound best; to those who can hear it, the song sung by old barns
and wooden structures is precious music. It can be informative music too, for
old houses speak as plainly as humans. (Beholding) an early barn or a hand-hewn
bridge...is the closest thing to an intimate communion with the plain people
who first kindled the American spirit and who evolved that architectural
inheritance which has all but disappeared."
OUR VANISHING LANDSCAPE
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Funk & Wagnalls, 1955 Sixth Printing; ISBN:
0345242939295; 107 pgs, profusely illustrated.
Sloane's exquisite pen-and-ink drawings and descriptive text
resurrect the old mills, smokehouses, churches, canal boats, covered bridges,
road signs, sleds, snowplows, wagons, water wheels, icehouses, farms, and many
more of the elements of our country's landscape. Historically accurate, this
volume contains such visual tidbits as the steps in building a charcoal road
and the steps in the evolution of a plank road.
ERIC SLOANE'S AMERICA
Promontory Press 1954/1994. ISBN: 0883940612; 343 pgs
Combination of "American Barns & Covered Bridges,"
Our Vanishing Landscape," and " American Yesterdays," drawings
of tools and other memorabilia.
SMITH,
Dwight A., NORMAN, James B. and DYKMAN, Pieter T.
HISTORIC HIGHWAY BRIDGES OF OREGON
Revised Edition; 1989; Portland, OR; Oregon Historical Society
Press,
ISBN:0875952054; 323 pages. Revised 2nd edition.
Profusely illustrated work on Oregon bridges with a long section
on Covered Bridges. Also "Historic Perspective"; "Old Columbia
River Highway Bridges"; "Other Historic Bridges", includes map
and index
STADELMANN, Werner
HOLZBRUCHEN DER SCHWEIZ ñ EIN INVENTAR
1990 Verlag Bundner
Monatsblatt, Chur
photos
and details all bridges in Switzerland, German language publication
WELLS, Rosalie
COVERED BRIDGES IN AMERICA
New York, NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1931;
135 pages,
Includes 135 black and white illustrations
of covered bridges in eastern and midwestern states. First book on covered
bridges from scholarly perspective.
WHITE, Vernon
Covered Bridges: Focus on Kentucky
Kentucky Imprints, Berea, KY 1985
WOOD, Miriam
COVERED BRIDGES OF OHIO: AN ATLAS AND HISTORY
Columbus, Ohio: Old Trail Printing Co, 1993; ISBN:1882376994
ZACHER,
Susan M.
THE COVERED BRIDGES OF PENNSYLVANIA, A GUIDE
Harrisburg: Pennsylvania
Historical and Museum Commission, 1986. Revised Edition. ISBN:0892710543; 141 pages
Illustrated guide to more than 200 covered bridges in
Pennsylvania. Includes location, date of construction, thumbnail descriptions,
index, bibliography, illustrated throughout with b/w photographs.
