Kinney Octagon Barn

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Kinney Octagon Barn

| nrhp_type =

| image = KinneyOctagonBarn.jpg

| caption = Kinney Octagon Barn in 2010 from the south

| nearest_city = Burr Oak, Iowa

| coordinates = {{coord|43|28|21|N|91|52|4|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Iowa#USA

| area = less than one acre

| built = 1880

| builder = L.R. Kinney

| architect =

| architecture =

| added = November 19, 1986

| mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64000152|title=Iowa Round Barns: The Sixty Year Experiment TR}}

| refnum = 86003191{{NRISref|2008a}}

}}

The Kinney Octagon Barn was a historic agricultural building located just north of Burr Oak, Iowa, United States. Lorenzo Coffin was a stock breeder and the farm editor of the Fort Dodge Messenger. He is thought to have built the first round barn in Iowa in 1867.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=86003191}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Kinney Octagon Barn|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=2016-07-05|author=James E. Jacobsen}} with {{NRHP url|id=86003191|photos=y|title=photos}} The modified hip roof and heavy timber construction of this barn, built in 1880, suggests that it was a Coffin-type octagon barn. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 19, 1986.{{NRISref|2008a}} It has subsequently been torn down.