Robert Orr Polygonal Barn, also known as the Oxenrider Barn, is a historic twelve-sided building located in Plain Township,

Kosciusko County, Indiana Kosciusko County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. At the 2020 United States Census, its population was 80,240. The county seat (and only incorporated city) is Warsaw. The county was organized in 1836. It was named for the Polish gen ...

. The frame barn has two stories and was built between 1909 and 1911. It is topped by a three-pitch

gambrel A gambrel or gambrel roof is a usually symmetrical two-sided roof with two slopes on each side. (The usual architectural term in eighteenth-century England and North America was "Dutch roof".) The upper slope is positioned at a shallow angle, w ...

roof and a twelve-sided

cupola In architecture, a cupola () is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome. The word derives, via Italian, from ...

. ''Note:'' This includes and accompanying photographs. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1992.

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Round barns in Indiana Barns on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Buildings and structures completed in 1911 Buildings and structures in Kosciusko County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Kosciusko County, Indiana {{KosciuskoCountyIN-NRHP-stub