Martin J Benoit, WFA
LOUISIANA INK ART
"Shadows of the Round"
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Date of Creation: 1989

Round barns were common in states like Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois where many still stand. This clay tile and frame barn located south of Lincoln, Neraska, was begun in 1922 and took two years to complete. Only four others still stand in Nebraska.

A dwindling testament to the craftsmanship of the Pennsylvanian Dutch, this barn measures 90 feet in diameter and is 60 feet tall. The barn has an interior silo in the center for storing grain, livestock stalls on the lower level, a milking parlor, and hay storage in the loft with equipment stored on the second level and accessed from the front of the barn which is built alongside a hill. Hay in the loft was fed to livestock on the bottom level through trapdoors in the floor.

The grandson of the builder still farms the land and uses the barn to house hogs and store equipment. It has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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