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In comparatively recent times, polygonal houses To the Bronze Age people whose round houses were constructed of History provides no evidence of primitive circular or polygonalīarns, but the circular plan in house building goes back in Britain Of a clean and easy sweep on threshing floor and cattle stalls. From that they wouldĪrgue that they had an economical space in the circle and the advantage Of square and circle, subtracting the corners. Least wall area, and could calculate the comparative floor areas With a flair for mathematics who knew the round barn enclosed the
While documentary proof is lacking, there must have been farmers Inevitable presence of pie-shaped rooms and consequent inconvenience,Īnd the elimination of the help of neighbors in the old fashioned To know something about their builders -why they so ignored traditionĪs to embark on a structure involving elaborate setting up, the The second half of the nineteenth century or later, and their territoryĬovers most of agricultural North America. Him he will see a superb ceiling in which rafters radiateįrom the ring of the cupola, and light from cupola and clerestoryĬombine to cast a glow on piled hay in daytime and almost See the extraordinary spectacle of the heads of cattle facing His mind's eye, because the barn is now no longer in use,
Will involuntarily look down some ten feet or so, and in Visitor cannot help but be astonished as he enters the greatĭoorway, and stands at a railing overlooking the mow. No better exampleĬould be found than the Shaker barn at Hancock,(see above) and the In few vernacular buildings do the dramaticĮffects of space and color, of height and depth unfold as Hundred and fifty years, it can still be considered a symbol Upon functional principles, the Hancock Barn (which partiallyīurned in 1870) was a noble experiment. In an effort to create an American farm architecture based Were built, however, and many of them still remain-mostly Soon proved too big for its own design and finally was used Initially, thisĪrea was designed for threshing, too, but the Round Barn There was enough room for two hay wagons to pass each otherĪnd empty their loads into the center mow. On the circular driveway floor, which was fifteen feet wide, The center supports created a ventilating column that ended It had a fort-like security in its nearly yard wide walls Īnd there was an immense hay-storage area in its center.
Great number of workers might be simultaneously engagedĪt their tasks and no person be in another's way." Interior," they said, "was designed so that a Ninety feet in diameter and housed fifty-two cows !! Completed in 1826, the huge barn was almost Radical round barn-years before polygonal and round barns Of simplicity and efficiency, and this famous round stoneĭairy barn at the Hancock Shaker village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, exemplified their vision.Īfter the settlement's largest dairy barn burned in 1825,Įlders William Deming and Daniel Goodrich conceived of this Shakers as they were commonly known, strove for ideals The United Society of Shaking Quakers, or Massachusetts, pioneered the round barn design in New England Symbolize the culmination of efficient, labor saving designsįor dairy barns of the animal-powered era of the late nineteenthĪnd early twentieth centuries, the Shaker community of Hancock,