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Featured Restoration

The Round Barn of Wacouta

Round barns were built to resist the wind — but a hundred years of Minnesota weather still catches up with a roof. This one, a local landmark on the bluffs above Lake Pepin, needed a full restoration with zero straight lines to work from. Here's the whole job, start to finish.

The round barn's original weathered roof mid-tear-off, dramatic stormy sky, Wacouta MN
Top-down drone view of radial plywood decking pattern on the round barn dome
Jacobs Construction crew member shingling the round barn dome, aerial view
Completed round barn roof restoration, aerial drone view, Wacouta MN
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The challenge

Original shingles, decades weathered, lifted and cracking under the barn's iconic dome. There's no ridge, no valley, and no straight run of shingle to work with — just radial courses that have to be cut and fit by hand, one at a time.

Logged · no straight lines to work from

Aerial establishing view of the round barn property in Wacouta MN before restoration Protective tarping wrapped around the round barn's base before roof tear-off
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Down to the deck

Full tear-off, the same standard we hold on every roof — round barn or ranch house. With the old shingles gone, the crew re-decked the entire dome in new plywood, cut and coursed radially from the cupola down.

Checked · new deck, cupola to eave

Aerial drone view of crew installing new plywood decking on the round barn roof
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Course by course

Synthetic underlayment first, then shingles laid in tight radial courses from the eaves up to the cupola. Every course tapers — nothing on this roof is a straight cut, which is exactly the kind of job that separates a crew from a chore.

Checked · every course tapered by hand

Crew member installing shingles on the round barn roof, radial courses visible Synthetic underlayment installed on the round barn dome with shingling starting at the eaves
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The finish

A restored landmark that will outlast the crew that built it — and a roofline you can only fully appreciate from the air. This is the standard we hold on every job, dome or not.

Job Complete · Wacouta, MN
Aerial view of the finished round barn dome roof Ground-level view of the completed round barn with new roof, Wacouta MN

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