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Richard Barker Octagon House
The Richard Barker Octagon House is a historic octagon house located at 312 Plantation Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built sometime between 1855 and 1865, during a brief period in their popularity, it is one two octagon houses in the city, and a relatively rare instance of one built using Orson Squire Fowler's recommended gravel wall technique. On March 5, 1980, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.〔
==Description and history==
The Barker Octagon House is set on Worcester's east side, on the east side of Plantation Street a short way south of Massachusetts Route 9. The house is two stories in height, with a low-pitch octagonal hip roof with an deep eave supported by paired decorative brackets. The walls are finished in stucco, and it has simple pilasters at the corners. A Colonial Revival porch shelters the front entry, supported by four Tuscan columns. The building at one time had an octagonal cupola at the top, but this has been removed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NRHP nomination for Richard Barker Octagon House )〕
The house was built during the brief period between about 1848 and 1865, when octagon houses were popularized by the works of Orson Squire Fowler. This is house is particularly unusual, in that its wall construction may follow one of Fowler's recommendations, using gravel stone chips; most octagon houses were built using then-standard wood frame construction methods. The first documented owner was Richard Barker, a carpenter, who purchased the house in 1866, when the craze was already dying out.〔
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