Sunday River Bridge in Newry, Maine, also called the Artists Bridge, is one of the state’s few surviving 19th-century covered bridges and stands beside an earlier Sunday River Road crossing. Built in 1872 after an 1811 bridge was swept away in 1869 and an 1871 replacement collapsed, it was designed for greater stability. The bridge is a Paddleford truss on cut granite abutments, with crossed braces between king posts and a wood-shingled gable roof. It survived the destructive 1927 spring floods when many regional bridges were lost, and after road realignment in 1955 it was preserved for pedestrian use. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, it remains an important example of western Maine bridge building.