That is neat-I’m keeping the picture of the bracing in the angle(s) of the building-maybe one day I might have occasion to use that. I really like the cupola, too-are there stairs to it, like an aerie/lookout?
Is the truck shifter still acting up?
These barns are not really huge. I don’t know about the cupola. Probably it was reached by a big, ol’ ladder, back in the day. You can see more pictures by Googleing “Clausing barns images”.
The Clausings were very inventive people. In addition to their barn business, they established several machinery businesses. One of the descendants worked for my husband at one time as an engineer.
My husband’s employee loaned my a family history that a cousi had put together for a big reunion upon the occasion of their barn being moved to Old World Wisconsin, restored, and made a permanent exhibit.
One of the anecdotes in the family history is that the Clausings hold the Wisconsin record for the shortest marriage. The couple lived on neighboring farms and the mother of the birde got into an argument with the father of the groom over the size of the “bride price” and the house where the couple was to live. The mother of the bride was so incensed that she grabbed her daughter and marched her right out of the wedding reception. An annulment followed several months later, and the groom married somebody else.
Our early German settlers had rules about everything and that is how the older generations got along without Social Security. They wrote contracts within in the families, laying out exactly who was to live where and how much of the crop belonged to the elders after they retired and moved to the smaller house on the property.
It was fascinating reading.