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	Washington, DC--Octagon House
		The Octagon House, built between 1798 and 1800, was designed by Dr. William Thornton, the architect of the U.S. Capitol, and completed by 1800.
		The Octagon achieves a zenith in Federal architecture in the United States, through its brilliant plan which combines a circle, two rectangles, and a triangle, and through the elegance and restraint of the interior and exterior decoration.
		The Octagon House became the home of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) on January 1, 1899, and complete ownership of the property was acquired in the year 1902.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/wash/dc22.htm (343 words)

	Watertown’s Octagon House
		In the Octagon House today is a rug made from the skins of four timber wolves and baskets and other artifacts given later to Mrs.
		The Octagon House on the west side of the river was some years in the planning and three years under construction.
		Octagon House porches to be restored: With rotting boards and posts, a recent anonymous donation to the Watertown Historical Society, will allow for the refurbishing of the characteristic porches.
	www.watertownhistory.org /Articles/Octagon_House_MainPage.htm (2789 words)

	Octagon House: 1850-1860 - Oldhouseweb.com
		The former medical student described an octagon house in his 1848 book, 'A Home for All; or the Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building.' Such a building, he argued would be better ventilated (through a cupola) and lighted, and thus healthier.
		Most octagons, however, were built of wood or brick, which in fact, meant higher costs to adapt these structural materials to the 135 degree contours of the octagon.
		The Bevis House in Chelsea, Massachusetts is a modest example of an octagon house.
	www.oldhouseweb.com /stories/Detailed/10478.shtml (790 words)

	GALLERY PLAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		One of which is Octagon House, a museum of the Decorative Arts of the Colonial and Federal Periods, located at 2645 Gough Street.
		When the house was originally built in 1861, four rooms were on the ground level and four on the top level.
		Staffed by volunteers, Octagon House is open to the public on the second Sunday of every month, and the second and fourth Thursday of every month, from noon to 3 p.m.
	www.journalism.sfsu.edu /flux/goldCoast/octagon.html (645 words)

	Octagon House
		Perched on an elevation overlooking the hamlet of Estella and broad expanse of countryside is a house that commands attention.
		Octagon in shape, it formerly was surrounded by a wide porch with a circular hall surmounted by two flights of winding stairs, giving entrance to twelve rooms and leading to around lookout on the top.
		In the mid-1800's, the house was constructed for $3,3000.
	www.rootsweb.com /~pasulliv/resources/Octagon.htm (4071 words)

	CALIFORNIA
		Octagon House, with a view of the Golden Gate from its cupola, was built only a few years after the Gold Rush.
		The house was built of four-foot thick, whitewashed adobe bricks and was occupied by the Estudillo family until 1887.
		The house has been restored by the California Park and Recreation Department and was furnished by the San Diego County Committee of The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of California.
	www.nscda.org /museums/california.htm (736 words)

	OCTAGON HOUSE
		Although no direct reference to the date of the Octagon House has thus far been found in early Watertown newspapers or other contemporary documents, there is good reason to accept the Richards family tradition that it was built between 1854 and 1856.
		This is the Lincoln Bedroom in the Octagon House.
		Note: On the Octagon House grounds, moved to the site, restored and maintained by the Watertown Historical Society, is THE FIRST KINDERGARTEN IN THE UNITED STATES, founded in 1856 by Margarethe Meyer Schurz, a pioneer barn which houses early farm implements, and other exhibits of a century ago, and the Gladys Mollart tour center.
	my.execpc.com /~drer/octagon.htm (2525 words)

	Octagon House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Octagon House was built in 1861 across the street from where it stands today, 2645 Gough Street at Union.
		The house was built by a doctor who believed the layout was conducive to good health because it allowed for so much exposure to sunlight.
		The Octagon House Museum is a showcase for Colonial furniture run by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America.
	www.mistersf.com /high/highoctagon04.htm (192 words)

	The Armour-Stiner Octagon House
		The Octagon House was originally built in the 1860s following the publication of The Octagon House, a Home for All by Orson Squire Fowler, a phrenologist, sexologist and amateur architect.
		Fowler advocated octagonal instead of four-sided houses on the supposition that the shape enclosed more space, created rooms which received twice as much sunlight and had greater accessibility to each other.
		The exterior embellishments are extraordinarily festive with floral detailing in the cast iron cresting and railings and elaborately carved wood scrollwork and capitals – all painted in shades of rose, blue, violet and red.
	www.josephpelllombardi.com /5homes/octagon.html (313 words)

	Octagon House Floor Plan
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		Octagon house floor plan to it like in terms of for example.
	www.cheetahresearch.co.za /house/octagon_house_floor_plan.html (832 words)

	The Octagon Museum
		To celebrate over three decades of this important award, the Octagon, the museum of the American Architectural Foundation is circulating a reproduction panel exhibition that not only honors these great American buildings and their designers but also explores the ability of architecture to affect the world around it.
		The oldest museum in the United States devoted to architecture and design, the Octagon Museum enables the American Architectural Foundation to increase public awareness of the power of architecture and its influence on the quality of our lives.
		As of January 1, 2006, The Octagon has been the subject of an exciting and intense, year-long study in order to redefine and improve the visitor experience to this remarkable site.
	www.archfoundation.org /octagon (371 words)

	Historical Record--The Octagon House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Alexander Winchell built the octagon house as his residence after he was appointed at the University in 1853 as chair of Physics and Civil Engineering, later switching to geology, zoology and botany.
		The octagon house, although popular, was rare, with fewer than 3,000 constructed, mostly in New York state, Massachusetts and the Midwest.
		In Ann Arbor, Winchell's octagon house was an oddity that captured wide attention.
	www.umich.edu /~urecord/9798/Apr22_98/histrec.htm (635 words)

	The Crites Octagon House
		As strange by today's standards as the concrete "round house" in Logan, Circleville's M.M. Crites farmhouse is actually a rare surviving example of a popular architectural style of mid-nineteenth century America: the Octagon House.
		It's hard to tell which side of the house you're on, since they all look the same, though the placement of the biggest door makes it clear where the front is, as did the placement of the driveway in the house's original spot.
		The Lane-Hooven House - An octagonal house in Hamilton, Ohio
	www.forgottenoh.com /Crites/crites.html (1417 words)

	Octagon House History
		The eight sided house with the beautiful spiral center staircase crowned by the cupola made the Octagon House the gem of the community.
		Built at the beginning of the Civil War the house is said to have been on the route of the Underground Railroad leading to Canada.
		Over the next three decades the house was condemned, turned into a living museum, rescued from destruction and brought back to life by Save the Octagon House, Inc. later re-named Friends of the Octagon House, Inc (FOTOH) a non-profit museum.
	www.octagonhouse.org /history.html (414 words)

	Captain Haskell's Octagon House - history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The OCTAGON HOUSE was built in 1847-1848 by the housewright John Vinal for the master of the New Bedford whaler Mercury, Captain Fordyce Dennis Haskell and his wife Sylvia.
		Now considered a curiosity of American architectural history, the brief craze for the "Octagon Mode" was inspired by Orson Squire Fowler, a phrenologist, publisher, pop-psychologist, and all-round Victorian eccentric.
		Octagonal houses were touted as superior in economy of construction, efficiency of space use and ventilation, as well as supposedly enhancing health, happiness and sexual harmony.
	members.aol.com /theoctagonhouse/House_history.htm (199 words)

	The Octagon House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		He than began to build this landmark ‘Octagon House’ based upon the then currently popular plans detailed in Orson Fowler’s book, "The Octagon House, A Home For All" (available at the Camillus Maxwell Memorial Library).
		The circular central stairs with octagonal banister and balustrades was accessible from all square rooms, basement, and attic.
		The Octagon House is now owned by The Town of Camillus.
	www.communitysite.com /states/newyork/octagon.htm (324 words)

	The Octagon Museum
		The Octagon, designed by Dr. William Thornton, first architect of the U.S. Capitol, was the first house to be completed in the area.
		For Washington's planners, the Octagon was a seminal presence.
		During the War of 1812, the Octagon served as a temporary residence for James and Dolley Madison after the White House (then known as the President's House) was burned in 1814.
	www.archfoundation.org /octagon/about/history.htm (583 words)

	Octagon House, Laurens, SC
		During this period, the octagonal style was used efficiently in barns, schools and churches.
		Besides his labors as a minister of the gospel, he was a first-rate teacher, an architect and a carpenter, a builder of houses and a farmer.
		This octagonal building is striking not only for its form and shape but for its use of con- crete and for other reasons.
	www.geocities.com /genebrooks/octagon-house.html (1709 words)

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		The House is closed for the month of November and reopens in December, when it is resplendent with traditional Victorian holiday decorations.
		The house was built for Judge John Shaw Moffat and his wife, Nancy Bennet Moffat, New Yorkers who arrived in Hudson in 1854 with their young daughter, Mary.
		The Octagon House is a fine example of the novel eight-sided dwelling popular in America in the mid-1800s.
	www.pressenter.com /~octagon/octagonhouse.html (341 words)

	Octagon House Inventory
		Older octagon and hexagon school houses, mostly occurring in eastern Pennsylvania, and to a lesser extent in New Jersey and New York, will also be kept, and new listings added when and if they become available.
		Started in about 1958, a large number of older octagon houses have been demolished, burned, vandalized beyond restoration, and, in rural areas, simply abandoned, during the intervening 50 years.
		The goal for those houses still known is to provide as much information as possible for each one, including its history, historical photographs, and floor plans.
	www.octagon.bobanna.com /main_page.html (564 words)

	Octagon House (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		To many area residents the title "Watertown Historical Society" and "The Octagon House" are one and the same.
		The House is one of the largest single family residences of the Pre-Civil War Period in Wisconsin
		In addition to those "modern conveniences," the house features a central spiral staircase which rises from the first floor to the tower room.
	www.watertownhistory.org.cob-web.org:8888 /octagon.htm (327 words)

	National Register Landmark 74000554: Feusier Octagon House in San Francisco
		Of the five known octagon houses built in San Francisco, two have survived: the Feusier House and the McElroy House.
		In later years, while she was paying a visit to France, her husband, as a surprise, added the octagonal mansard roof to give the family more room, making the house quite a departure from the usual octagon style.
		The Feusier Octagon was one of a group of houses at the top of Russian Hill which survived the 1906 disaster, but it was threatened in the 1970s, when the owner wanted to replace it with a high-rise apartment tower.
	www.noehill.com /sf/landmarks/nat1974000554.asp (290 words)

	Octagon house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the White House was burned by the British during the War of 1812, President James Madison stayed in the Octagon House in Washington, D.C. It was here that the Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812 was signed.
		According to Fowler, an octagon house was cheaper to build, allowed for additional living space, received more natural light, was easier to heat, and remained cooler in the summer.
		The largest remaining octagon house in the United States, and arguably the most famous, is Longwood, located in Natchez, Mississippi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Octagon_house (401 words)

	Perfect Limo- The Octagon House
		The house, built in the 1850s, is the landmark for the Borough of Montvale and is incorporated into all official signs and forms of the community.
		The House was built in the 1850s by John J. Blauvelt, who was reputed to be friends with Orson S. Fowler, author of an 1848 book on building methods.
		Fowler felt that the octagon was an ideal shape for a home, allowing for optimal floor space with the elimination of a central hall.
	www.perfectlimo.com /house.html (231 words)

	Octagon House
		The octagonal form had been used in public buildings in the past [e.g., the Roman Tower of Winds in Athens, Greece]; but now as a concept for domestic architecture it had a dedicated and convincing champion.
		Fowler's books, stressingt he functional and stylistic advantages of the octagon house, found many readers and several hundred followers who sprinkled the landscape from New England to Wisconsin with eight-sided houses, barns, churches, schoolhouses, carriage houses, gardenhouses, smokehouses, and privies.
		Gothic came the pointed arch windows and other embellishments in the octagon house he built for himself on a rise overlooking the HudsonRiver.
	ah.bfn.org /a/dctnry/o/oct.html (620 words)

	Octagon House
		The cupolas found in most houses were useful on the sea coast where wives could watch for the return of their husband's fishing boats.
		The Octagon House An 1856 Landmark of Camillus, N.Y. Ann Arborís octagon house
		The Octagon House in Akron was built in 1849 by Charles B. Rich.
	ah.bfn.org /a/NEWST/main/145 (1017 words)

	Figures and polygons
		The sum of the angles of a heptagon is 900 degrees.
		The sum of the angles of an octagon is 1080 degrees.
		The sum of the angles of a nonagon is 1260 degrees.
	www.mathleague.com /help/geometry/polygons.htm (620 words)

	Homes in Basseterre, houses in Basseterre, real estate in Basseterre, A House for Sale - St. Kitts real estate
		On the property is also a generator house, with much room for extra storage.
		The house itself, is constructed of concrete block and steel.
		The house was built hurricane safe and is equipped with built-in accordion hurricane shutters over each of it's six main entrances.
	www.ahouseforsale.com /a2stk01.htm (827 words)

	Fowler’s Folly: The Octagon House
		The magnificent octagon house was built in Fishkill, NY, in 1853, but quickly fell into disrepair and was razed in 1897.
		The Tower of the Winds, an octagon Greek temple, was built in 300 B.C. In America, nearly 20 octagon churches were built by the Dutch in the Hudson Valley between 1680 and 1750.
		In 1848 he began building his own octagon house in Fishkill, NY, and in 1849 the first edition of his book on octagon structures was published.
	www.northeastjournal.com /LeadingStories/july05/octagon.htm (1504 words)

	CHAD LEWIS - Octagon House
		The house has been shown on the History Channel.
		The house was featured on the History Channel's "Hidden Passages" program.
		For example, on one occasion they stepped out of a room for a moment and returned only to find the spinning wheel to be disassembled.
	www.unexplainedresearch.com /files_spectrology/octagon_house.html (137 words)

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