Inventory

of Older Octagon, Hexagon, and Round Houses

The most comprehensive source on octagon houses
ever compiled.

A non profit educational website.


The Octagon House Inventory Book


Includes a supplemental listing of more than 30 octagon houses newly-documented since book's 2011 publication.

A permanent record of locations and histories of all known octagon houses (over 1000) built in the U.S. and Canada between 1848 and 1920.

Historian Ellen L. Puerzer been interested in the historic structures since 1976 and compiled information from this website, old newspapers and her own archives. Handy 312 page trade paperback with index for easy reference, and with updated locations and info not on the website.

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Overview


The number below each state is the present number of old octagon, hexagon, and round houses and schoolhouses on the inventory, where old means 1950 or before. Only those for which the construction date is known are counted, so the counts shown are likely an under count.

Alabama
5 		Hawaii
1 		Massachusetts
93 		New Mexico
0 		South Dakota
7
Alaska
8 		Idaho
0 		Michigan
105 		New York
194 		Tennessee
8
Arizona
3 		Illinois
54 		Minnesota
32 		North Carolina
13 		Texas
18
Arkansas
0 		Indiana
31 		Mississippi
9 		North Dakota
1 		Utah
7
California
44 		Iowa
40 		Missouri
9 		Ohio
55 		Vermont
19
Colorado
6 		Kansas
11 		Montana
4 		Oklahoma
1 		Virginia
29
Connecticut
33 		Kentucky
5 		Nebraska
8 		Oregon
8 		Washington
6
Delaware
5 		Louisiana
2 		Nevada
1 		Pennsylvania
116 		West Virginia
4
Florida
17 		Maine
21 		New Hampshire
9 		Rhode Island
23 		Wisconsin
62
Georgia
8 		Maryland
15 		New Jersey
48 		South Carolina
5 		Wyoming
0


District of Columbia
6 		Canada
74 		Mystery Houses


What's Construction information Orson Fowler
Books Octagon Schoolhouse Layout

In year 2023 the number of standing old houses is 532, and the number in the inventory is 1,278.


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