For the past several months, our designers and craftsmen have been working on the reconstruction of the Old Blenheim Bridge. The original bridge had been built in 1855 and was destroyed in 2011 by flooding of the Schoharie Creek caused by Tropical Storm Irene. Until that event, it had been the world’s longest free span […]
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The Speakman No. 2 Covered Bridge, and other News
Last week LCTF began rebuilding a covered bridge just south of Coatesville in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The bridge is also known as the Mary Ann Pyle Bridge and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Built in 1881 and measuring 75 in length, it is the twin of Speakman No. 1, […]
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Over the years Lancaster County Timber Frames has hosted more than a dozen interns from five different institutions. This summer we have two. Patricia Anna Willis, a Georgia native, is a sophomore majoring in timber framing at the American College of the Building Arts in Charleston, South Carolina. Besides a desire to work with wood she […]
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