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New World Dutch barns) represent the oldest and rarest types of barns. [ citation needed ] There are relatively few—probably fewer than 600—of these barns still intact. Common features of these barns include a core structure composed of a steep gabled roof , supported by purlin plates and anchor beam posts, the floor and stone piers below.
Prairie barns share a number of features with the historic Dutch barn design. Long, low roof lines, gable end doors and the internal dispersal of stable stalls in aisles astride a central hallway are all elements of Dutch barns.
A postcard photograph inside a maison landaise Kliese Housebarn in Emmet, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Built ca. 1850 for Friedrich Kliese, an immigrant from Silesia. A housebarn (also house-barn or house barn) is a building that is a combination of a house and a barn under the same roof.
The barn contains a large upper-level loft. The outer wall is approximately 63 feet (19 m) in diameter, supported by a ring of 20 split posts which are breast high in the loft. An inner ring of 13 posts, 40 feet (12 m) in diameter, rises to support the rafters and define the edge of the loft's central space.
Pole building design was pioneered in the 1930s in the United States originally using utility poles for horse barns and agricultural buildings. The depressed value of agricultural products in the 1920s, and 1930s and the emergence of large, corporate farming in the 1930s, created a demand for larger, cheaper agricultural buildings. [2]
In Indiana, for example, 219 round barns were constructed between 1850 and 1936; of those, 67 were polygonal, including 17 eight-sided barns built after 1900. [ 2 ] An old belief that the barns were round to keep the devil from hiding in the corners may have helped drive the popularity of round barn construction.