| Tim Thering Octagon Barn | |
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 Tim Thering Octagon Barn and owner's mail box | |
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Octagon Mode |
| Town or city | near Plain, Wisconsin |
| Country | United States |
| Completed | 1907 |
The Tim Thering Octagon Barn built in 1907 is an historic octagonal barn built by Edgar Carpenter located north of Plain, Wisconsin. It is in excellent shape and is listed in Dale Travis" Wisconsin Round Barns List. [1]
Octagon houses were a unique house style briefly popular in the 1850s in the United States and Canada. They are characterised by an octagonal (eight-sided) plan, and often feature a flat roof and a veranda all round. Their unusual shape and appearance, quite different from the ornate pitched-roof houses typical of the period, can generally be traced to the influence of one man, amateur architect and lifestyle pundit Orson Squire Fowler. Although there are other octagonal houses worldwide, the term octagon house usually refers specifically to octagonal houses built in North America during this period, and up to the early 1900s.
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Coordinates: 43°17′37″N90°03′02″W / 43.2937°N 90.05054°W
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