It was built at the height of an East Coast fashion for octagonal houses in the 1850's.

When you live in an octagonal house, you learn that there are eight sides to every issue.

One doesn't expect an octagonal house to be divided into rooms.

The new octagonal house, built at a cost of $200,000, was the most expensive house in Illinois at that time.

Longwood is the largest octagonal house in the United States.

A brick tower and octagonal wooden house were erected on this foundation.

Two octagonal houses, with small lanterns protruding from the roof, were added.

There is an octagonal house, built to comply with the owner's belief that every architectural detail should relate to the number eight.

Only a few examples are offered, and apart from plans, the book has only two illustrations to show how an octagonal house might look.

Fowler was influential, but not the only proponent of octagonal houses and other structures.