The 1849 Cooley Covered Bridge carries Elm Street across Furnace Brook in Pittsford, Rutland County, Vermont. It is one of a small number of bridges in the state that has a well-documented association with the 19th-century master bridgewright Nicholas M. Powers, who grew up nearby and was acknowledged as the state's best-known builder of covered bridges.

Cooley Bridge is one of four surviving 19th-century covered bridges in the town.  Cooley is the name of a farm family who owned land around the bridge.  It is also known as Furnace Brook Bridge.

Located about one mile south of the village of Pittsford, Cooley Bridge carries Elm Street across Furnace Brook. The bridge is a single-span Town lattice truss, with a span of 50.5 feet and a total structure length of 66 feet, caused by portals that overhang the ends by 8 feet. The bridge is 18.5 feet wide, with a roadway width of 15 feet (one lane). The bridge originally rested on stone abutments, which have either been rebuilt or faced in concrete. It has a slate roof. The sides are sheathed in vertical board siding, which extends around the portal ends and partly to the inside of the structure. Portions of the trusses have been reinforced by doubling the timbers, and some iron bracing has been added to the bridge's underside.

Of the over 500 covered bridges built in Vermont, as of 2019, only 104 remain.

Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on January 24, 1974.

Located at:  N43 41.423    W73 01.716      -      WGCB #45-11-07 

Photographed in July of 2019.