Menno Yoder Polygonal Barn

Built in 1908. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Menno Yoder barn is one of the two remaining poured concrete polygonal barns in the United States state of Indiana. Built on the outskirts of Shipshewana in 1908 by Menno Yoder, this 12-sided barn has been expanded upon.”
Wikipedia article Menno Yoder Polygonal Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for LaGrange County · listed in 1993 · category: Building · built in 1908.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Yoder, Menno, Polygonal Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Co. Rd. 250N, 3/4 mi. W of jct. with IN 5, Shipshewana, 46565
When was it listed? April 1993
Category. building
Also known as. Round and Polygonal Barns of Indiana MPS
Township. Newbury township
When was it built? 1908
National Register reference number. 93000191 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

210 words

This property stands in Newbury Township. Illustrated Historical Atlas of LaGrange County, Indiana., published 1874 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Newbury Township - 210 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Menno Yoder Polygonal Barn: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cass Lake Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Diehl Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Miller Marl Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Poyser Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Storms near this property

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shipshewana, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Shipshewana	$1,500,000	no account filed
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Shipshewana	$10,000	Trees and power lines down across area with power outages.
March 2023	Hail	Shipshewana	$2,000	A report on Facebook indicates quarter size hail.
March 2023	Hail	Shipshewana	$2,000	One inch diameter hail reported.
June 2015	Hail	Shipshewana	-	Picture of half dollar sized hail received.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Shipshewana	-	The public reported multiple trees down across the area.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Shipshewana	-	Local officials reported several trees down in the Shipshewana area.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Shipshewana	-	Several trees were blown down.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Shipshewana	-	Large tree limbs down on State Route 5, blocking the road.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Shipshewana	-	Ham radio operator reported trees down northwest of Shipshewana.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Shipshewana	-	Law enforcement reported trees down in Shipshewana.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Shipshewana	-	Trees down.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Shipshewana	-	Trees down.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Shipshewana	-	Trees down.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Shipshewana	-	SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN TOWN.
February 2017	Hail	Shipshewana	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Shipshewana	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Shipshewana	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaGrange County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000191 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
LaGrange County	All 10 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.