Covered bridge from “Maple Lane”
Glimmerglass State Park, East Springfield, New York
The original drive of Hyde Hall included a crossing of Shadow Brook by means of this covered bridge which was built it 1825 by master carpenter Cyrenus Clark and stonemason Lorenzo Bates.
2012 Photograph by Michael Reynolds
Covered Bridge
Hyde Hall, Springfield, New York
Built by Cyrenus Clark (1772-after 1856), Andrew Alden (1785-1853), and Lorenzo Bates (1786-1859)
Glimmerglass State Park, Springfield, New York
c.1825
This covered bridge was part of the original drive to Hyde Hall as it crosses over Shadow Brook.
It was constructed by Cyrenus Clark with the assistance of carpenter Andrew Alden, and stone mason Lorenzo Bates, in the early1820’s, utilizing the Burr arch truss. Theodore Burr (1771-1822) of Oxford,
