Wendling Bridge

{{short description|Covered bridge in Oregon, US}}

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Wendling Bridge

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| image = Wendling Bridge Lane County Oregon.jpg

| caption =

| nearest_city = Marcola, Oregon

| locmapin = Oregon#USA

| built = 1938

| architecture = Howe Truss

| added = November 29, 1979

| area = {{convert|0.1|acre}}

| mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64000700|title=Oregon Covered Bridges TR}}

| refnum = 79002095{{cite web|title=Wendling Bridge|url=http://focus.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/79002095|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=March 16, 2016}}

| coordinates = {{coord |44.1914|-122.7989|display=inline,title}}

}}

The Wendling Bridge is a covered bridge in Lane County in the U.S. state of Oregon. The {{convert|60|ft|adj=on}} Howe truss structure carries Wendling Road over Mill Creek in the unincorporated community of Wendling.{{cite web|title= Mill Creek (Wendling) Covered Bridge|url=http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/BRIDGE/docs/covbrdg/Descriptions/Wendling.pdf|format=PDF|publisher=Oregon Department of Transportation|accessdate=March 16, 2016}} Built in 1938, the bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.{{cite web|title=Oregon National Register List|publisher=Oregon Parks and Recreation Department|url=http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf|page=23|format=PDF|date=June 6, 2011|accessdate=July 17, 2011}}

Lane County built four covered bridges, including the Wendling Bridge, in 1938. The others are the Pengra, Goodpasture Bridge, and Earnest bridges.{{cite web|title=Wendling Creek Covered Bridge|url=http://www.lanecounty.org/about/pages/wendlingcreek.aspx|publisher=Lane County, Oregon|accessdate=March 16, 2016}} A. C. Striker was then the county bridge superintendent.{{cite book|author1=Smith, Dwight A.|author2=Norman, James B.| author-link2=James B. Norman | author3=Dykman, Pieter T.|title=Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon|publisher=Oregon Historical Society Press|location=Portland|edition=2nd|year=1989|origyear=1986|page=169|isbn=0-87595-205-4}}

Notable features of the bridge include semi-elliptical portal arches and ribbon openings at the eaves. The structure was named for the town, which had been named after George X. Wendling, a San Francisco millionaire who provided the largest investment into Booth-Kelly's expansion in the Mohawk valley in 1899.{{Cite news |date=September 20, 1899 |title="Contract Let" |work=Eugene Daily Guard}}