{"nrhp_refnum":"84002401","name":"Zoller-Frasier Round Barn","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Fords Bush Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newville","county":"Herkimer County","state":"NY","lat":42.97247864700006,"lon":-74.77579521099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-09-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A round dairy barn built about 1895 on the north side of Fords Bush Road near Newville, in the town of Danube, Herkimer County, New York. It was built for Jacob Zoller, the original owner.","why_significant":"The barn is argued to be an early and virtually unaltered example of a round barn with a central silo in New York State. It has a self-supporting central silo, a circular stanchion layout, and the earliest circular hay fork track in its thematic group. Its balloon framing produces curved and conical forms efficiently, and its hilltop setting makes it a prominent landscape feature.","narrative":"Perched on a bluff about two miles south of the Mohawk River, this round dairy barn near Newville in Herkimer County dates to about 1895. It was built for Jacob Zoller, described only as a pioneer food processor from Little Falls. The barn is roughly 80 feet across, with clapboard-sided stud walls on a low mortared stone foundation, a conical roof and a round cupola. Inside, stanchions are arranged in rings around a stud-framed central silo that stands independent of the walls and roof. Light radiating rafters rest on a circular purlin, and a circular hayfork track hangs from them. The barn was recognized as an early and nearly unaltered New York example of a round barn with a central silo, and as the earliest in its thematic group to have a circular hay fork track. Its balloon framing has held up well despite decades of limited maintenance, and it still houses a dairy herd. Open meadows surround it.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; builder Jacob Zoller, original owner","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is stated as fair, with almost no loss of integrity. The barn continues to shelter a dairy herd and farm machinery, and its dairy use is unchanged from the original.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.495338-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84002401.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"95001024","name":"Lindesay Patent Rural Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/lindesay-patent-rural-historic-district-boundary-increase-95001024/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313108","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoller-Frasier_Round_Barn","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8073570"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/herkimer-county/zoller-frasier-round-barn-84002401/"}