Meridian Octagonal Barn, is located near Grottoes, Virginia.

Built about 1867, the barn is possibly the only example of such a barn in Virginia, as the building style was more popular in the expanding midwestern United States in the immediate post-American Civil War era than in economically depressed Virginia.

[3] The wood frame barn retains the traditional bank barn functions of a central wagon floor with hay lofts to either side, rather than a functional distinction between each of the sides as suggested by Fowler.

As with a bank barn, accommodations for cattle are on the lower level, with the stalls arranged in a line rather than radially.

[1] Media related to Harnsberger Octagonal Barn at Wikimedia Commons