A curiosity rises amid the wheat fields along rural Highway 33, which cuts through the town of Guthrie. It's an immense, circular building — about 15,000 square feet inside — with a domed roof topped ...
Once glorious, part of a shining showcase of classical architecture that became known around the globe as the White City, the bulk of the buildings that made up the World’s Columbian Exposition of ...
GREENSBURG, Ind.- Historian Shirley Willard calls round barns the “cathedrals” of the countryside. They are symbols of a bygone time in Indiana agriculture when farmers combined form, function and ...
The Round Stone Barn, the most notable Hancock Shaker Village building, is the first and only Shaker barn of its kind. Widely recognized as an architectural icon and agricultural wonder, this ...
This month, Frank and Delores Koren expect to welcome some 35,000 visitors to their Round Barn Museum and Recreation Facility in Manhattan. They bought the 350 acres that house the 20-sided round barn ...
The architecture of round barns can be traced to a Shaker community in Hancock, Massachusetts, where a stone structure was erected in 1826. Circular barns built of wooden slats were popular on ...
When large round hay bales came along, those of us who had cut our agricultural teeth on stacking small square bales thought we’d never need to put hay bales in a stifling hot barn again.
Experienced agricultural producers in the southern Great Plains know that low wind speeds, high humidity, moist hay, and hot temperatures can be a recipe for disaster. Under such a set of ...
Ruben Alvarez Jr. sits on a bale of grass hay in the warehouse at Dave’s Hay Barn. A rooster crows in the background. Ruben is waiting for his father, Ruben Alvarez Sr., to return from a hay delivery.