Octagon Buildings

These ruins of an octagonal stone school that was later used as an A.U.M.P. church exemplify a popular school design from the 1830s.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

This octagonal cottage is the smallest and the oldest council house in the United Kingdom.

The Bourbon royal family had this unique octagonal hunting "cottage" built on a tiny islet in Lake Fusaro.

A rare example of an octagonal Catholic church.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

In the mid-19th century, an eight-sided house was the latest fad.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.