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Pages in category "Barns on the National Register of Historic Places in California" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Barns on the National Register of Historic Places in California (7 P) This page was last ...
Only round barn in New Mexico and the only adobe round barn in the U.S. [34] DeLaney Barn: built 1902; NRHP 1989 200 S. Chambers Rd. Aurora, Colorado: Only surviving round barn in Colorado. Built in 1902 as a silo. Converted into a dairy barn by 1910. [35]
A silo (from Ancient Greek σιρός (sirós) 'pit for holding grain') is a structure for storing bulk materials. Silos are commonly used for bulk storage of grain, coal, cement, carbon black, woodchips, food products and sawdust. Three types of silos are in widespread use today: tower silos, bunker silos, and bag silos.
The barn stands at a height of 25 ft (7.6 m), with a total area of 5,358 square feet (497.8 m 2). It is a vernacular-style barn, belonging to the Western-style barn category commonly found in the Western United States. These types of barns were designed to accommodate the storage of substantial amounts of feed, which was necessary for ...
Silos is the plural of silo, a farm structure in which fodder or forage is kept. Silos may also refer to: Santo Domingo de Silos, Spain; Silos, Norte de Santander, Colombia; Los Silos, a municipality and town on the island Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; The Silos, Montana, a census-designated place in the United States; The Silos, an American ...
Restored barn, late 2008. The Pereira Octagon Barn of San Luis Obispo is a historic structure located on the southern outskirts of San Luis Obispo, California.It was built in 1906 by Henri LaFranchi, a young Italian-Swiss immigrant and the owner of a small meat market, John Damaso, an Azorean immigrant and a carpenter by trade, and a third, unknown man identified only as a “milk farmer.”
The word barn comes from the Old English bere, for barley (or grain in general), and aern, for a storage place—thus, a storehouse for barley. [4] The word bere-ern, also spelled bern and bearn, is attested to at least sixty times in homilies and other Old English prose. [5] The related words bere-tun and bere-flor both meant threshing floor.