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Octagon houses are eight-sided houses that were popular in the United States and Canada mostly in the 1850s. They are characterized by an octagonal plan and often feature a flat roof and a veranda tha
The McElroy Octagon House on Gough St. San Francisco, California; structural concrete construction (built 1861)
Jane Ross Reeves Octagon House in Shirley, Indiana. Built in 1879, moved and restored in 1997.
Bevis Tucker House in Chelsea, Massachusetts, a timber frame house with a flat roof.
Rich-Twinn Octagon House in Akron, New York a timber frame house with pitched roof and lantern, veranda all round. Arched windows and window shutters add to the decorative effect.
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In geometry, an octagon is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon.
Octagon house
…Octagon houses are eight-sided houses that were popular in the United States and Canada mostly in the 1850s. They are characterized by an octagonal (eight-sided) plan and often feature a flat roof and a veranda that encircles the house. Their unusual shape and appearance, quite different from the…
The octagonal floor plan, Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem.
Umbrellas often have an octagonal outline.
The famous Bukhara rug design incorporates an octagonal "elephant's foot" motif.
Janggi uses octagonal pieces.