Couser Barn

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| name = Couser Barn

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| image = Couser_Barn_from_E_1.JPG

| caption = Barn in 2010

| nearest_city= Laurel, Nebraska

| locmapin = Nebraska#USA

| built = 1912-13

| architecture = Centric Barn

| added = July 17, 1986

| area = less than one acre

| refnum = 86001714{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

The Couser Barn is a dodecagon-shaped round barn in Cedar County, Nebraska. It was built during 1912-13 for William Couser, a farmer who came to Nebraska from Shelby County, Iowa in 1899. It was built in the second phase of centric barn construction in Nebraska, when light balloon framing allowed for large open spaces to be created. An oral tradition holds that the design for the barn came from the University of Nebraska.{{cite web|url=http://www.nebraskahistory.org/histpres/nebraska/cedar/CD00-012_Couser_Barn.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620235329/http://nebraskahistory.org/histpres/nebraska/cedar/CD00-012_Couser_Barn.pdf |url-status=usurped |archive-date=June 20, 2010 |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Couser Barn |publisher=National Park Service|author=Joni Gilkerson |date=April 1986 |accessdate=November 9, 2016 }} with {{NRHP url|id=|photos=y|title=photos}}

The barn has a hay hood.

{{cite report|type=none|title=Nebraska’s Round Barns|url=https://history.nebraska.gov/sites/history.nebraska.gov/files/doc/publications/NH1970Round_Barns.pdf |author=Roger L. Welsch |date=1970}}