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The tobacco barn, a type of functionally classified barn found in the USA, was once an essential ingredient in the process of air-curing tobacco. In the 21st century they are fast disappearing from the landscape in places where they were once ubiquitous. [ 1 ]
A two-story frame tobacco barn, built around 1940. A board-and-batten stock/tobacco barn, built around 1920. The barn was originally built to house livestock, but is now used for tobacco. Three concrete silos, one built in the 1940s, and two (side-by-side) built in the 1950s. The older silo no longer has its dome roof, while the two newer silos ...
The Illinois State University Alumni Center, located at 1101 N. Main in Normal, is designed to serve over 215,000 alumni of Illinois State University, as well as current students, faculty/staff, and the Bloomington/Normal community.
Tobacco & Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake (University of North Carolina Press, 1986). online; Parker-Pope, Tara. Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke (2002) online; Porter, Patrick P. “Origins of the American Tobacco Company” The Business History Review, Vol.43, No. 1.(1969)
The round barns at the University of Illinois played a special role in the promotion and popularity of the American round barn. The University of Illinois was home to one of the Agricultural Experiment Stations at U.S. universities which were at the heart of the promotion of the round barn. [7] [8] At least one round barn in Illinois was built ...
In the case of the Raymond Schulz Round Barn, near Pontiac, Illinois, it was constructed specifically because its owner had viewed the round barns at the university. [6] The round barn was the last of five types of American barns to be built by carpenters, the others being the Dutch, English, connected and Pennsylvania barns. [2]
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.
The three University of Illinois round barns played a special role in the promotion and popularity of the American round barn. They are located in Urbana Township, on the border of the U.S. city of Urbana, Illinois and on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The University of Illinois was home to one of the Agricultural ...