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Gempeler Round Barn

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Area
  
less than one acre

Built by
  
Hagse Brothers

Opened
  
1912

Nearest city
  
Orfordville

Built
  
1912

NRHP Reference #
  
79000110

Added to NRHP
  
4 June 1979

Gempeler Round Barn

MPS
  
Centric Barns in Rock County TR

The Gempeler Round Barn near Orfordville, Wisconsin, United States, is a round barn that was built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1979.

The barn has a 68-foot diameter. It is "significant for its ingenious construction, with its main story supported by an inverse pylon made up of an oak trunk upside down in the center of the basement."

References

Gempeler Round Barn Wikipedia