Kinney Octagon Barn | |
Coordinates: | 43.4725°N -91.8678°W |
Area: | less than one acre |
Built: | 1880 |
Builder: | L.R. Kinney |
Added: | November 19, 1986 |
Refnum: | 86003191 |
The Kinney Octagon Barn was a historic agricultural building located just north of Burr Oak, Iowa, United States. Lorenzo Coffin was a stock breeder and the farm editor of the Fort Dodge Messenger. He is thought to have built the first round barn in Iowa in 1867.[1] The modified hip roof and heavy timber construction of this barn, built in 1880, suggests that it was a Coffin-type octagon barn. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 19, 1986. It has subsequently been torn down.