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The Marion Ridgeway Polygonal Barn located in LaPorte County on the southern edge of LaPorte, Indiana, is a multi-sided barns. Built in 1878 by Marion Ridgeway and called the Door Prairie Barn. The barn sites east of highway 35 surrounded by woods and cultivated fields. The nine-sided barn is south of a rectangular barn. The barn has nine-sides and is two-storied tall. The roof is capped with a sectional cone roof with a nine-sided cupola in the Gothic Revival/Italianate style.〔Marion Ridgeway Polygonal Barn, 64500218; National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form; US Dept of the Interior, National Park Service; Washington, D.C.; May 1993〕 Within the louvered panels trim pieces resemble a lancet arch. The post and beam frame sits on wooden sill propped on stone.〔 ==Exterior== The roof is covered in wood shingles. There is an overhang, showing the rafters in the soffit area. The wall are covered with horizontal tongue and groove beveled siding. Corner boards at used where each wall section adjoins the next.〔 The barn faces north and has a large sliding door located off center to the west on the lower level. There are long narrow openings with operable wood shutters at each side of the wall section, with identical openings on the upper level. The upper level has a small hay door with a large hay dormer. The dormer has an out swinging hay door with a hay pulley at the top. The dormer is capped by a steeply pitched gable roof with exposed rafters.〔 The first side, described above, is followed by side two with its window and four-foot wide door. Side three has another window next to a door and there is a smaller hay door on the upper level, above the window. Side four contains another window and door pair while side five has the door and then the window with a smaller hay door above. Side six, is roughly parallel to the road, has the door and windowand on the upper level is painted: ''DOOR PRAIRIE 1878 LaPorte, Indiana''. Side seven and eight both have doors and windows. Side eight has an upper level hay door above the window. Side nine contains the final door and window combination. The combination of windows and doors is said to give the barn its name: "Door Prairie Barn".〔 The name also is an associations with in LaPorte County, which means "Door." The county was named because of a natural "door" between the woods to the north and east and the prairie to the west and south. This section of the county is called ''Door Prairie''. This doorway was a landmark on the Indian trail through the area. It became the site of Door Village.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marion Ridgeway Polygonal Barn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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