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National Register of Historic Places Program



Property Name Pereira Octagon Barn
Reference Number 13001068
State California
County San Luis Obispo
Town San Luis Obispo
Street Address 4400 Octagon Way
Multiple Property Submission Name N/A
Status Listed 1/15/2014
Areas of Significance Architecture, Agriculture
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The Pereira Octagon Bam is significant at the local level under Criteria A for its role in San Luis Obispo County's dairy industry and Criterion C as a rare example of Octagon architecture. The period of significance is 1906 until approximately 1950, when the property was no longer used as a dairy bam and became a beef cattle barn. Criterion C, Architecture: The Pereira Octagon Bam is one ofthe few West Coast examples of the eight-sided barn architecture, which was intended to be more efficient for the farmer in the days before mechanization made farm labor less arduous. Criterion A, Agriculture: The Pereira Octagon Barn served as a dairy bam for approximately 50 years, in a county known from the 1860s to the 1950s for its production of milk, butter, and cheese. Constructed in 1906 at a time when local dairy people were realizing the importance of adapting modem methods of farming, the barn was part of a Grade A dairy operation until the mid-1950s, at which time the property was converted to a beef cattle operation.


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