List of octagonal buildings and structures in the United States

Octagonal buildings and structures are characterized by an octagonal plan form, whether a perfect geometric octagon or a regular eight-sided polygon with approximately equal sides.

Octagon-shaped buildings date from at least 300 B.C. when the Tower of the Winds in Athens, Greece, was constructed. Octagonal houses were popularized in the United States in the mid-19th century by Orson Squire Fowler and many other octagonal buildings and structures soon followed.

This article is a list of octagonal buildings and structures in the United States. Many of these are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Barber shops

* Dickey's Octagonal Barbershop, Rives, Tennessee

Churches, chapels, synagogues. etc.

* Falcon Tabernacle, Falcon, North Carolina, 1898. On January 30, 1911, it was the site of the formal merger agreement between two Pentecostal denominations, into what is now the International Pentecostal Holiness Church.
* Holy Ghost Catholic Church (Kula, Hawaii), 1894.
* Follen Church Society-Unitarian Universalist, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1839, has an octagonal sanctuary designed by its first minister Charles Follen.
* McBee Methodist Church (Conestee, South Carolina), 1842.
* Seventh Church of Christ, Scientist (Seattle, Washington), 1926, an irregular octagon
* The Temple (Old Orchard Beach, Maine), 1881, is an octagonal Free Will Baptist Church.
* Union Chapel (Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts), 1870.

Farm buildings including barns

* Kinney Octagon Barn, Burr Oak, Iowa
* Secrest Octagon Barn, Downey, Iowa
* Octagon Barn (Jamaica, Iowa)
* Fobes Octagon Barn, Lanesboro, Iowa
* Roberts Octagon Barn, Sharon Center, Iowa
* Octagonal Poultry House, Cold Spring, New Jersey
* Tim Thering Octagon Barn (Plain Wisconsin), 1893.

Forts

* Fort Edgecomb, Maine

Government buildings

* Navajo Nation Council Chamber, a National Historic Landmark in Window Rock, Arizona
* Octagon Building (Santa Cruz, California), 1882. Originally the Santa Cruz County Hall of Records. It later became the Museum Store for the adjacent "Museum of Art and History". It is now an upscale coffee shop called Lulu's at the Octagon.

Halls

* Franklin County G. A. R. Soldiers' Memorial Hall, Hampton, Iowa

Hospitals and insane asylums

* The Octagon (Roosevelt Island, New York)

Hotels

* Brightwood Beach Cottage, in Litchfield, Minnesota

Houses

* House of the Seven Gables (Mayo, Florida), 1880s, Seven sides are gabled while the eighth leads into a rear wing.
* Richard Peacon House, Key West, Florida, 712 Eaton Street, 1885, contributing property in Key West Historic District. Owned by Calvin Klein in the 1980s. May be the southernmost octagon house in the continental United States.
* Albert S. Potter Octagon House, Richmond, Rhode Island, 1857, contributing property in the Carolina Village Historic District.

Jails

* Daviess County Rotary Jail and Sheriff's Residence, Missouri

Libraries

* Goodnow Library, Sudbury, Massachusetts
* Andover Public Library (Andover, Maine)

Lighthouses

* Eldred Rock Light, Alaska
* Cape Henry Light, Virginia
* Point Judith Light, Rhode Island
* Portland Observatory, Maine

Markets

* City Market (Petersburg, Virginia)

Post offices

* Old Post Office (Liberty, Maine)

chools and colleges

* Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka, Alaska
* Charter Oak Schoolhouse, Schuline, Illinois
* Octagonal Schoolhouse (Essex, New York)

tores

* Andrew Gildersleeve Octagonal Building, Mattituck, New York, combination residence and store

ee also

* Octagon Barn
* Octagon Building
* Octagon House
* Octagon School

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