A rare 1850s-era octagon house in San Francisco is hitting the market for $8.6 million. The eight-sided property’s history comes packed with about as many chapters. The roughly 5,000-square-foot ...

San Francisco’s famed eight-sided house takes an $800K price cut. Originally priced at $8.6M, it’s the city’s only “octagon house” that’s still a personal residence.

The idea of building such an unusually shaped house came about following the publication of phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler’s The Octagon House: A Home for All. In this book, he offered his belief ...

On June 1 and 2, the Zimmerman-Bury Octagon House Association will host a Civil War Living History event at the 15-room gabled house at 10095 Wadsworth Road (sate Route 585) in Wayne County.

This rare style flourished for a brief period in the mid-19th century, when author, lecturer and amateur architect Orson S. Fowler published a book extolling the virtues of the eight-sided ...

BENTON — The eight-sided “honeycomb” house stood for 100 years on the Hamilton-Franklin County line before burning down at the hands of an arsonist in 1973. Now — more than ...

Eight sides and concrete walls The home at 103 N. Midway was built in 1861 by local businessman Benjamin Franklin Petty. At the time it was built, octagonal homes – houses with eight sides ...

These eight sided framed houses were rarely seen individually in such a small rural town and enrich our community. An architectural oddity that is still ahead of its time, the octagon house fad ...