Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Good(7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good(7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Very Good(8 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 24.4 (out of 100) View more at BridgeReports.com
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December 2, 2020: New photo from Roger Deschner
November 10, 2020: New Street View added by Alexander D. Mitchell IV
June 27, 2020: New photos from Nick Boppel
April 17, 2018: New photos from Richard Doody
August 24, 2016: New photos from John Loxton
December 10, 2015: New photos from Mike Garland
October 12, 2009: Updated by C Hanchey: Bridge is known as the Albany Covered Bridge
Posted December 2, 2020, by Roger Deschner (rogerdeschner [at] gmail [dot] com)
What a find, while going through old family photos on color slides. My father photographed this bridge in 1952, with my mother standing by watching a period pickup truck cross the bridge. The sign at the left clearly points across the bridge to "Passaconaway", which is now mostly a ghost town located along route NH-112 (Kankamagus Highway) west of Conway NH. That sign definitely identifies where this picture was taken, and which bridge this is.
Since this is the east portal, and the sun is shining on the bridge deck itself, this picture was taken at about mid-morning.
This 1952 picture also shows that arson of wooden bridges is not a new phenomenon! Fortunately the fire didn't cause extreme damage, though that may be why it had no siding in 1952. The substructure was apparently not damaged at all. The lack of siding really shows off the Paddleford truss design in this photo.
I also changed the name of the road that crosses the bridge to Passaconaway Road, per NBI and Google maps.
(Picture that would have been here is now #41 above.)
What a find, while going through old family photos on color slides. My father photographed this bridge in 1952, with my mother standing by watching a period pickup truck cross the bridge. The sign at the left clearly points across the bridge to "Passaconaway", which is now mostly a ghost town located along route NH-112 (Kankamagus Highway) west of Conway NH. That sign definitely identifies where this picture was taken, and which bridge this is.
Since this is the east portal, and the sun is shining on the bridge deck itself, this picture was taken at about mid-morning.
This 1952 picture also shows that arson of wooden bridges is not a new phenomenon! Fortunately the fire didn't cause extreme damage, though that may be why it had no siding in 1952. The substructure was apparently not damaged at all. The lack of siding really shows off the Paddleford truss design in this photo.
I also changed the name of the road that crosses the bridge to Passaconaway Road, per NBI and Google maps.
(Picture that would have been here is now #41 above.)