The Secrest 1883
Octagonal Barn, LLC
Secrest Barn Photos
Here are many photos of the Secrest Octagonal Barn. Click on the thumbnail image for a larger view. Give it a minute to load as there are a lot of photographs. Enjoy!
Upper level first photographs before restoration. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
Longerbeam house in 1900. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
An aerial view of the farmstead. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
Secrest farmstead. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
Corn cribs plus the Secrest Octagonal Barn before restoration. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
The town of Downey in the distance from the cupola. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
Barn interior shot. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
A view from the east before restoration. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
Suspended stairway to the cupola. Hope you aren't afraid of heights! Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
Windmill in the field. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
P. Buckley Moss painting of the Secrest Octagonal Barn. Registered Copyright P. Buckley Moss.
Train car that delivers hay to the livestock in the cattle barn attached to the octagonal barn. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
This image shows how the beams in the barn were constructed. I wouldn't want to be that brave soul at the top. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
This is an image of the house built on the property where the barn is located. Longerbeam house. This is the house where the barn was dreamed up at the kitchen table. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
A survey map of Johnson County Iowa, 1917. Notice Guy Secrest over on the right side. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
Secrest Farmstead 1918. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
The laminated beams are constructed with several boards laminated together to make one curved strong beam. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
Horizontal overhead barn illustration. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
Longerbeam lot. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
Longerbeam house in 1995. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
Secrest Octagonal Barn ceiling. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
Hershey barn cows. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
Corn crib plus the barn. This photo was taken before restoration of the Secrest Octagonal Barn. Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.
Joshua Secrest Photo Courtesy and Copyright 2013 Rich Tyler.