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Pole building design was pioneered in the 1930s in the United States originally using utility poles for horse barns and agricultural buildings. The depressed value of agricultural products in the 1920s, and 1930s and the emergence of large, corporate farming in the 1930s, created a demand for larger, cheaper agricultural buildings. [2]
A bank barn in Delaware. Note its accessibility on two different levels. A bank barn or banked barn is a style of barn noted for its accessibility, at ground level, on two separate levels. Often built into the side of a hill or bank, the upper and the lower floors could be accessed from ground level, one area at the top of the hill and the ...
Wooden cattle barn (early 20th century) in Nunspeet, Netherlands. A functionally classified barn is a barn whose style is best classified by its function. Barns that do not fall into one of the broader categories of barn styles, such as English barns or crib barns, can best be classified by some combination of two factors, region and usage.
Barn doors, or occasionally a set of barn doors, are an attachment fitted to the front of a Fresnel lantern, a type of lantern used in films, television, and theatres. [1] The attachment has the appearance of a large set of barn doors, but in fact there are four leaves, two larger and widening on the outside, two smaller and getting narrower ...
This barn has the oldest known barn timbers in its core dated to 1726 but the roof structure, side aisles and exterior are not original. [1] Dutch barn is the name given to markedly different types of barns in the United States and Canada, and in the United Kingdom. In the United States, Dutch barns (a. k. a.
A papasan chair is a large rounded bowl-shaped chair with an adjustable angle. The bowl rests in an upright frame traditionally made of rattan , but also sometimes made of sturdy wicker or wood. The base frame often has rings of two different diameters, with the larger intended to be upright, to better support the bowl, and the smaller ring ...
A Wisconsin dairy barn is a style of barn developed presumably in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, but present in other U.S. states, especially further west. "The introduction of the Wisconsin Dairy Barn, which was actively promoted by the University of Wisconsin School of Agriculture , incorporated the scientific knowledge of the turn-of-the-[20th ...
Old-style choke and new-style capacitor based wall control. Wall-mounted control. Some fans have their control(s) mounted on the wall instead of on the fans themselves; these are very common with industrial and HVLS fans. Such controls are usually proprietary and/or specialized switches. Mechanical wall control.