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Round barns are rare, and fully restored ones are rarer still.
The 50 foot tall by 70 foot in diameter structure was built to provide shelter for 28 draft horses by a German immigrant, Henry Fromme. What Fromme had no way of knowing was that the draft horses would soon be replaced by the tractor, thus making the both the horses and the barn obsolete. Looking straight up from the second story haymow, you can see the rafter detail. Round barns can trace their origins back to the colonial period of American History. George Washington had a sixteen sided barn on his farm.