Dougan Round Barn

	Dougan Round Barn
	Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Before 2012 demolition
Location	444 West Colley Rd., Beloit, Wisconsin
Coordinates	42°30′29″N88°59′20″W / 42.50806°N 88.98889°W Coordinates: 42°30′29″N88°59′20″W / 42.50806°N 88.98889°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1911
MPS	Centric Barns in Rock County TR
NRHP reference No.	79000108
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 4, 1979
Removed from NRHP	January 30, 2014

Last updated November 24, 2022

The Dougan Round Barn in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States, was a round barn that was built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[1] It was demolished in 2012.^[2]

The owner of the farm was Wesson J. Dougan, a Methodist pastor who gave up the ministry when he became deaf.^{[ citation needed ]} He purchased his farm in 1906, established the Dougan Dairy, and carpenter Mark Keller finished building the round barn in 1911.^[3]

The barn sat on a concrete foundation, with a diameter of sixty feet, clad in bent horizontal wooden siding. Above that was a conical gambrel roof. A 50-foot poured concrete silo stood at the center of the structure. Cattle were housed in the ground floor, with a hay mow above. The design of the barn incorporated ideas of Professor F.H. King of the University of Wisconsin, with light admitted by many windows and ventilation provided by air ducts, wooden air shafts, and two ventilators through the roof.^[3] The barn served as a dairy barn until 1968. At its peak the farm had 120 cows.^[4]^: 7–9

A pioneer in scientific farming and dairy management practices, Wesson Dougan was recognized in 1926 by the University of Wisconsin's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences with an Honorary Recognition Award, for combining "so successfully, skillful husbandry with a high type of rural life that his work has been a thoroughly constructive influence in the dairy industry. In this he has achieved high ideals to an unusual degree." When he retired, his son Ronald A Dougan took over the family's three farms, the dairy, the milk delivery business, and the hybrid seed corn business; RA Dougan retired in 1976, having sold his delivery business to a corporate producer. The story of the farm is told in a four-volume series of books by writer and university professor Jacqueline Dougan Jackson, the founder's granddaughter.

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References

1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
↑ "Historic Dougan Round Barn demolished". Beloit Daily News . 19 April 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
1 2 "Dougan Round Barn (Wesson Joseph Dougan Barn)". Wisconsin Historical Society. January 2012. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
↑ Nancy Belle Douglas (November 10, 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation: Centric Barns in Rock County TR". National Park Service.

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[nris-1] 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[Beloit_Daily_News_Demolition-2] "Historic Dougan Round Barn demolished". Beloit Daily News . 19 April 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.

[whs-3] 1 2 "Dougan Round Barn (Wesson Joseph Dougan Barn)". Wisconsin Historical Society. January 2012. Retrieved 2021-09-04.

[mps_wisconsin-4] Nancy Belle Douglas (November 10, 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation: Centric Barns in Rock County TR". National Park Service.

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