San Luis Obispo County CA Archives Photo Place.....Octagonal Barn, San Luis Obispo 
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OCTAGONAL BARN Old Highway 1, San Luis Obispo

History and Description:

Very little is known about this unusual barn other than that it was built before
1900 for the milking of cows.  It belonged to the Santa Fe Dairy at one time. 
It now belongs to J. L. Pereira, who uses it for hay storage.

The barn is made entirely of wood and has a concrete floor and foundations. The
walls are covered with random width board that is white washed.  The roof is
supported mainly by a ring of columns at the inside of the feeding trough.  The
majority of the thrust from the roof is taken by diagonal members from the ridge
beams down to the main columns just before the floor.  There is no tension ring
used here.  The roof is currently covered with asphalt shingles.  The floor is
roughly thirty-two feet on a side, and seventy-seven feet between parallel sides.

Sources:
J. L. Pereira, present owner 
David Kannard 
Miss Jones


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Discovering San Luis Obispo County
by
Carleton M. Winslow


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