Fountaingrove Round Barn

The barn in June 2012

Historical outline

The Fountaingrove Round Barn was a historic round barn near Santa Rosa in the US state of California . The wooden building was a major Santa Rosa landmark and was destroyed in the wildfires that raged Sonoma County in October 2017 . The barn was on Fountaingrove Parkway and Round Barn Boulevard .

history

1875 a group of members who had Brotherhood of New Life - utopia -Kommune from New York to Sonoma County come here under the direction of Thomas Lake Harris a spiritual community, the winery Fountaingrove to start. One of the first community members was the Japanese Kanaye Nagasawa , who later took over the leadership of the community, was a respected winemaker and became known as the "Baron of Fountaingrove". In 1898 he commissioned John Clark Lindsay, who had moved from Napa County , to build a barn for the horses that were used in viticulture. It should replace a previous building that had burned down. The barn, completed in 1899, was designed by the architect Louis Cowles ; it was equipped with sixteen sides and 28 inward-facing stall boxes. Two small windows on each of the sixteen sides bordered the windows on the adjacent side. The building was 70 feet in diameter and 60 feet high . It was originally painted white with red decorations. After the already dilapidated brick buildings of the former winery were demolished in 2015, the barn was the last remaining building of the Fountain Grove winery. It burned down on October 9, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Fountaingrove Round Barn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Photo of the burning barn , October 11, 2017, in: The New York Times
• Interior photo of the barn , at: flickr
• Lorraine Boissoneault, As Wildfires Rage Across California Wine Country, a Historical Structure Turns to Ash , October 11, 2017, at: Smithsonian.com (in English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eric Stanley, Santa Rosa Then & Now , ISBN 978-07385-597-97 , Arcadia Publishing, 2008
2. ↑ Fountaingrove Inn website (in English)
3. ↑ Round barn at Fountain Grove , at: Calisphere, University of California (in English)
4. ↑ Kevin McCallum, Historic Fountain Grove Winery in Santa Rosa being demolished , July 25, 2015, in: The Press Democrat

Coordinates: 38 ° 28 '32.8 "  N , 122 ° 43' 38.9"  W.