Office Bridge (Westfir, Oregon)
- Title
- Office Bridge (Westfir, Oregon)
- LC Subject
- Architecture, American Architecture--United States
- Alternative
- Westfir Covered Bridge (Westfir, Oregon) North Fork of the MIddle Ford Willamette River Covered Bridge (Westfir, Oregon)
- Creator
- Westfir Lumber Company
- Photographer
- Ross, Marion Dean
- Creator Display
- Westfir Lumber Company (builder/contractor)
- Description
- This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest.
- View
- exterior
- Provenance
- University of Oregon Libraries
- Temporal
- 1940-1949
- Work Type
- architecture (object genre) built works views (visual works) exterior views bridges (built works) covered bridges
- Location
- Lane County >> Oregon >> United States Oregon >> United States United States Westfir >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- intersection of North Fork Road and Westfir-Oakridge (Westoak) Road
- Date
- 1944
- View Date
- 1976-06-27
- Identifier
- pna_19949
- Item Locator
- mdr06079
- Rights
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Rights Holder
- Oregon State Historic Preservation Office
- Source
- Gift of Wallace K. Huntington from the estate of Marion Dean Ross
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 180 feet long
- Material
- wood
- Set
- Building Oregon
- Primary Set
- Building Oregon
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Note
- Built by Westfir Lumber Company for carrying loaded log trucks, the Office Bridge is Oregon's longest covered bridge and the only covered bridge west of the Mississippi River which has a pedestrian walkway. It uses triple Howe truss construction. The bridge became the property of Lane County, Oregon, in 1992. This image was included in the documentation to support a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service. The image is provided here by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the University of Oregon Libraries to facilitate scholarship, research, and teaching. For other uses, such as publication, contact the State Historic Preservation Office. Please credit the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office when using this image.
