Design Doncaster Round Barn

detail of east doors of barn, said (with exaggeration) able accommodate “ten-horse wagon laden hay.”

the foundation set on stone abutments quarried rock in canyon located 5 miles (8.0 km) away. armstrong stated driven twelve feet below water table , set on bedrock. walls of wooden planks, made of 3 thicknesses of lumber deep, said insulated double sheets of building paper between each layer of lumber. entrance barn featured engraved 4-by-8-foot (1.2 2.4 m) horse scene placed on door.

the barn featured 20-foot (6.1 m) wide, indoor training track dirt footing, claimed quarter-mile in circumference, on ground floor, armstrong s horses exercised. horses kept outside sheltered there in bad weather. there 26 box stalls on first floor, around outside of track, dividing walls 4 feet high between stalls horses see 1 another, armstrong believed “this promotion of neighborly companionship [relieved] monotony of indoor horse life.” each stall included doorway outside , window. doorways led 26 2 ⁄2-acre (1.0 ha) paddocks, 1 each horse. circular structure in center contained tack room, 2 hospital stalls, , spiral stairway. there elevator moving hay , grain, , shaft sunk in center of barn, which, aid of windmill on 12-foot (3.7 m) tower @ top of barn, drew water stored in 11,000-us-gallon (42,000 l) tank on third floor. first floors included office space , sleeping quarters staff. second floor hold 50 tons of hay , 12,000 bushels of grain. floor sloped , chutes cut floor feed deposited mangers of horse stalls below. water third floor tank went through gravity-based plumbing system each horse s stall.

charles armstrong, noah s son, said barn “may called model of architectural beauty , convenience. structure novel in conception, convenient in economy, , withal admirably adapted purposes of creation, description of cannot of interest readers of sketch.”

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