The original covered wooden bridge over the Weirs Channel. From a stereoview photographed and published by W.L. Wilder, Laconia, N.H, and titled on the reverse side "Outlet of Lake Winnipesaukee". The man in the photograph is reclining on the ground in the area of what is today's Citco gas station and looking North towards what is now Endicott Rock Park. The "Old Red House" is the house to the left of the covered bridge, on the West side of the Weirs Channel. The name or purpose of the house in the foreground is unknown. The photo was probably taken in the late 1870's, and certainly before 1883, when the bridge was replaced with a steel truss structure.

Regarding the Old Red House, here is an interesting excerpt from Warren Huse's The Weirs, p 26: Torn down in 1902, the house was old long before the Weirs came into prominence as a summer resort in the late 1870's, "when the place was little more than a cow pasture with a plank walk extending a few feet on the side of the lake and known to the traveling public as Weirs Steamboat Landing." The Old Red House was an important trading post. "Over its counter has been sold in years gone by many dollars worth of West India goods, etc., to say nothing of many gallons of old New England rum."







The drawing of the covered bridge, below, is done looking South, in the opposite perspective from the Stereoview, and shows to the left of the bridge, the house with the single chimney that was on the East side of the Weirs channel.