Shelburne Museum Round Barn

Fred "Silo" Quimbly constructed the Round Barn, a three-story building measuring 80 feet (24 m) in diameter, in 1901 in Passumpsic, Vermont.

Round barns enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The publication of the building's plans in a nationally distributed farm journal in 1896 sparked the construction of approximately 24 comparable barns in Vermont beginning in 1899.

A helicopter flew the upper segment of the silo, which weighs nine thousand pounds, from Passumpsic to Shelburne, while workmen dismantled the remainder of the building piece-by-piece and transported it on flatbed trucks to museum grounds.

While the roof of the barn was being replaced in April 2009, workers noted the signature of a painter, John Morency, on the silo.