Dear Jim: I saw some round and octagonal houses at a recent home show. They were very attractive outside and had uniquely shaped room layouts with sloped ceilings. Is this an energy efficient method ...

In the mid-1800s, the "octagon house" enjoyed a short-lived popularity in residential architecture. Designed to be economical, practical and aesthetic, the eight-sided, two-story dwelling was designed ...

Fowler claimed in his book, "A Home for All; or The Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building," that eight walls would enclose more space than four walls of the same length. But the layout of the rooms ...

In 1848, phrenologist and lecturer Orson Squire Fowler authored the book “The Octagon House: A Home for All,” which shared his views about the benefits derived from residing in an eight-sided house ...

Octagon houses were briefly popular in the 1850s in the U.S. and Canada, and there is a prime example in Columbiaville. Located at 1250 State Route 9, the house's unusual shape, and others like it, ...

Multipaned windows wrap around three sides of the half-octagon kitchen bay of the Donald, offering a panoramic view. The kitchen’s octagonal protrusion creates one of several interesting roofline ...

CLYDE — When he was growing up in rural Clyde, Bill Frankart often mowed the lawn for his neighbors, Eldon and Kathryn Powell, who lived in one of the most unique homes in Ohio, an 1850s octagon house ...

One of Alabama’s most unusual homes has been preserved in downtown Clayton. The Petty-Roberts-Beatty House is known for its unique architecture, its building materials and its residents. In fact, one ...