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This is a list of octagon houses. A large number of octagon houses were built in the United States before the American Civil War, and of these, at least 68 are included on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and survive to this day.〔That 68 were built by 1861 is documented by listing in the table, with date built provided by almost all from the NRIS system. For a few, as noted in their separate articles, the Robert V. Kline site, listed as an external link below, was the source for the date of construction.〕 Of these, six are further designated National Historic Landmarks of the United States: Armour-Stiner House in the Hudson River valley in New York, which is perhaps the only domed octagon house in the world; The Octagon House in Washington, D.C. where President Madison lived after the White House was burnt by the British; Thomas Jefferson's retreat Poplar Forest; May's Folly in Georgia; Samuel Sloan-designed Longwood in Natchez, Mississippi, still unfinished after its construction was halted by the American Civil War; and Waverley, also in Mississippi.〔 Retrieved on various dates.〕 Orson Squire Fowler's 1848 book ''The Octagon House, A Home for All'' and his "monumental" four-story, 60-room house built during 1848–1853, Fowler's Folly in Fishkill, New York, provided inspiration for a nationwide fad.〔 Fifty-nine of the sixty-six pre-Civil War houses on the NRHP were built between 1849 and 1861. It is reported that the owner of the first-built of these, the Rich-Twinn Octagon House in western New York, was impressed by seeing an octagon house in the Hudson River Valley, presumably Fowler's home under construction.〔 and (''Accompanying four photos, exterior and interior, from 1994'' )〕 At least one of the houses were used as "stations" sheltering escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad: the Octagon House in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.〔 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1856 Octagon House )〕 Including post-Civil War constructed houses, there are now at least 84 octagon houses that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.〔That there are 84 NRHP octagon houses is documented by National Register reports identifying the below-listed properties as having "Octagon mode" architecture, or other indications of octagon house nature for these listed properties. Also, eight historic districts are noted to contain octagon houses as contributing properties, which may include others not listed here.〕 Octagon houses were particularly popular in New York State. There were 120 octagon houses in New York State,〔 and (''Accompanying 10 photos, exterior and interior'' )〕〔Per Bonafide, citing Cramer, Sec 8-page 2 in Bonafide〕 of which 13 are listed on the National Register and listed below. In 1958 Carl F. Schmidt published ''The Octagon Fad'' which attempted to inventory the Fowler-inspired homes, most of which were built prior to 1915 in North America. However, only a small fraction of the total are notable and extant. ==Canada== At least 20 historic octagon houses are known to exist in Canada, distributed across four eastern provinces.〔In Canada, the octagon house craze also engendered an octagonal deadhouse phenomenon. This included octagonal deadhouses, pre-burial edifices, built in the mid-to-late 19th century along Yonge Street in south-central Ontario, from just north of Toronto to Aurora. At least 3 octagon houses are classified as heritage sites, one in Richmond Hill and the other in King.〕 Extant octagon houses in Canada include the following: *In New Brunswick〔 * * Pocologan〔(See photo of Sackville one here )〕 * *Sackville: Captain George Anderson House, built in 1855, is a locally designated heritage site * In Nova Scotia〔 * *Tatamagouche: Fraser Octagon House, built in 1857, provincially designated heritage site * In Ontario〔 :: *In Quebec〔 * *Guérin 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of octagon houses」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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