Roseman Covered Bridge

Roseman Covered Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Roseman Covered Bridge
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Nearest city	Winterset, Iowa
Coordinates	41°17′34.04″N 94°8′59.1″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1883
Built by	Jones, H. P.
Architectural style	Town lattice
NRHP reference No.	76000792[1]
Added to NRHP	September 1, 1976

The Roseman Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge in Winterset, Iowa. It is prominently featured in the novel The Bridges of Madison County,[2] as well as its film adaptation. It was built in 1883[3] over the Middle River,[4] and renovated in 1992. The Roseman Covered Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

See also

• List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Iowa
• List of covered bridges in Madison County, Iowa

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. McKee, Brian J. (1997). Historic American Covered Bridges. ASCE Press. ISBN 978-0-7844-0189-7.
3. Holden, Greg (2010). The Booklover's Guide to the Midwest: A Literary Tour. Clerisy Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-57860-314-5.
4. Swanson, Leslie Charles (1970). Covered Bridges in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Swanson Publishing.

External links

• Media related to Roseman Covered Bridge at Wikimedia Commons
• The Bridges of Madison County
• National Register of Historic Places – Madison County, Iowa
• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. IA-95, "Roseman Bridge, Spanning Middle River at bypassed section of Webster Township Road, Winterset, Madison County, IA", 6 photos, 2 color transparencies, 5 measured drawings, 9 data pages, 2 photo caption pages