Round Barns of New York
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9780815607960
Subjects: Residential buildings, domestic buildings; United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic; History: American; History; History - U.S.; New York; Barns; New York (State); Round buildings
Description: "Triumpho explores how the idea of round barns worked itself out in New York, where nearly two-third of them - mostly octagonal and multisided - were constructed before the turn of the century in twenty-nine counties." "More than seventy photographs and line drawings, historical data, and anecdotes by present owners make these bygone barns spring to life as the author shows why the round shape engaged farmers, how these eccentric barns rose to fashion, why so few survived, and why the remaining ones are worth studying - and preserving - as legitimate architecture and as a record of agricultural progress in New York State."--BOOK JACKET.