{"nrhp_refnum":"83000326","name":"Buckles, Robert, Barn","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SE of Mt. Pulaski","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mount Pulaski","county":"Logan County","state":"IL","lat":39.98559127600004,"lon":-89.27370491399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A round, two-story vitrified tile barn about one mile southeast of Mount Pulaski in Logan County, Illinois, built in 1917. It is 60 feet in diameter and 55 feet tall to the top of the cupola.","why_significant":"It is one of the few remaining round barns in central Illinois and the only known one in the area built of vitrified tile, with curved tiles matching the 30-foot radius. It reflects the round barn movement promoted by the University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, and has unusual interior features such as a circular laminated beam and thin reinforced concrete stall partitions.","narrative":"Built in 1917 about a mile southeast of Mount Pulaski, this round barn is 60 feet across and 55 feet tall to the top of its cupola. Its walls are curved vitrified tile, shaped to the barn's 30-foot radius, and it has a conical shingled roof, two levels of casement windows and curved sliding doors made of wood soaked and pressed into shape. Inside, pie-shaped stalls are divided by thin reinforced concrete partitions, and a circular laminated beam about 35 feet in diameter supports the loft. The barn is listed as one of the few surviving round barns in central Illinois and the only known one in the area built of tile. It reflects a University of Illinois effort, including a 1910 bulletin on the economy of round barns, to promote the form. A 1927 tornado left the roof slightly askew until repairs in 1982, when rehabilitation began for storage use. The farm is also tied to early Logan County settlers, the Buckles and Turley families.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Not used in recent years and suffered interior damage from roof leaks; the roof was repaired and reshingled in 1982 and interior rehabilitation was under way for use as storage.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.824284-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/8913/28891335/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/83000326.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000326/f6de93a984-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000326/f6de93a984-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Buckles_Barn_from_the_road.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Buckles_Barn_from_the_road.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891335","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Buckles_Barn","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14688053"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/logan-county/buckles-robert-barn-83000326/"}