Owners of the property -

• ​1885 to 1954 - The H. W. Fromme Family - Homesteaders to successful farmers and community leaders. The Fromme family hired Pat Campbell - who was a local contractor and community leader to build the barn   
• 1954 to 1994 - The J. W. Birney Family - successful farmers to community leaders and restoration of barn
• 1994 Phyllis Birney donated the barn to the Kiowa County (Kansas) Historical Society
  
• C​ommunity Involvement in Restoration of the Fromme-Birney Round Barn

Mary Lammers Fromme on her horse

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From the Early 1900's -

• 1912 -  Efficiency of the Round Barn
• From the June 14, 1912 issue of The Mullinville Tribune - "H. W. Fromme is hauling out lumber to build a new barn on his farm south of town, and when completed Mr. Fromme will have one of the largest and best arranged barns in the county."​​
• 1912 -  Percheron Breeding in Kansas
• 1919 -  Kansas Barn Photo Contest Results
• The Round Barn - A Love Story

Barn Links

• ​Kansas Barns in Time & Place  from "Kansas History - ​      A Journal of the Central Plains, Volume 22, Number 1, Spring 1999"
• ​Kansas Barn Alliance  provides barn restoration assistance. Join the Kansas Barn Alliance to support barn restoration in Kansas

Henry W. Fromme imported a prize winning percheron stallion from France with the name of "Bouquet", meaning "crowning piece". 

​This stallion had the largest and heaviest built stall in the barn. When you enter the barn, his stall is the first stall on the left. ​

​"Fourteen Horse stalls ring the perimeter of the barn and were home to the Fromme farm's plow horses and wagon teams. There are no tie-holes in the mangers for halters, because the draft animals were so well-trained they knew which stall was theirs and automatically sauntered into the right space when a days work was done."

​"​Hay was kicked down from the loft above, and the circular alleyway inside was big enough to allow a grain wagon to be pulled through the big doors on the east side, around to the stalls, and back out." quoting Henry W. Fromme (grandson of builder) in 1-15-1987 Wichita Eagle, written by Mike Berry