Significance
Illinois, as home to the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Illinois, played a key role in promoting and popularizing the round barn design. The three round barns that are now part of the historic district at the experiment station helped influence Illinoisians and, in turn, other Midwesterners, to build round barns. In the case of the Raymond Schulz Round Barn, near Pontiac, Illinois, it was constructed specifically because its owner had viewed the round barns at the university.
The round barn was the last of five types of American barns to be built by carpenters, the others being the Dutch, English, connected and Pennsylvania barns. Collectively, they represent the foray of science into the field of agriculture.
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