The 1865 Maple Street Covered Bridge, also called the Lower Covered Bridge and the Fairfax Covered Bridge, is a covered bridge that carries Maple Street across Mill Brook, a tributary of the nearby Lamoille River, in Fairfax, Franklin County, Vermont.

Maple Street Bridge is the town's only historic covered bridge and is a rare two-lane covered bridge in the state. The bridge is a single-span structure of Town lattice design, set on abutments of stone and concrete. It is 56.5 feet long and 20.5 feet wide, with a roadway width of 17.5 feet, and a maximum vertical clearance above deck of 7.2 feet. The length of the largest span is 44.9 ft. Iron tie rods join the tops of the flanking trusses to provide lateral stability, and the bridge deck is made of wooden planking. The exterior is clad in vertical board siding, which ends short of the eaves on the sides. The siding extends a short way on the interior of each portal.

Built in 1865 by Kingsbury and Stone, the bridge is the town's only surviving 19th-century covered bridge and is an example of a two-lane bridge, built to accommodate significant village traffic. A major renovation was conducted in 1990-1991 by Jan Lewandoski. The debate is conducted to this day as to whether the bridge is now "backward". When it was washed off its foundations by the Flood of 1927 it is unknown whether the bridge was put back on in the same direction as it was originally. Some say the eastern portal now faces the west and vice versa.

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

Length of largest span: 44.9 ft.
Total length: 57.1 ft.
Deck width: 17.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 7.2 ft.

Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on November 5, 1974.

Located at:    N44 39.83    W73 00.62     -    WGCB #45-06-02

Photographed in July of 2019.