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The Village Elms Covered Bridge
Built to cross a spring fed creek, this bridge was designed around the existing rock bridge. The bridge is constructed primarily of timbers from the customer's personal collection, with some coming from trees milled in Nashville in the 1980's. Additional timbers needed were milled on site from available trees. Boasting black walnut, red oak, ash, western red cedar, hard maple, spruce, white oak, and sassafras, this frame is an unique collection of species.
The roof is made of authentic hand-split western red cedar shakes and has a cedar ridge cap.
Beautiful evergreens adorn this spring-fed stream and crossing.
The truss system employs a simple collar tie structure. The interior decking is also western red cedar.
Designed in-house, this unique construction condenses the design style of a much larger bridge into a small footprint, containing both beauty and strength.
The bridge was designed around the existing hardscape, shown here prior to construction.
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