The Andrew B. VanHuys Round Barn, located a few miles south of Lebanon, is a well-preserved example of a once-common Midwestern agricultural form that has largely disappeared. Round barns were built in Indiana between roughly 1890 and 1920 on the premise that the shape was structurally efficient and allowed hay to be stored in a central mow above the animals below. In practice they proved difficult to adapt as farming methods changed, and most were demolished.
The VanHuys barn is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It sits amid working farmland and is best appreciated as a drive-by — the exterior is the thing, and the rural landscape around Lebanon on a clear day has the flat, wide-sky beauty of the central Indiana plain.