Athens. The general T.R.R.Cobb Octagon house. The original
rectangular section was built about 1830. Located at 194 Prince Street,
the house was moved to Stone Mountain in the 1980s, and sat deteriorating
for 20 years. In about 2003 the Watson_Brown Foundation paid to move
the house back to Athens, and to restore it. The house now sits at 175 Hill
Street, about 200 yards from its original location.
Given the rectangular house as a gift by his father-in-law,
Joseph H. Lumpkin, as
a wedding gift in 1844 when marrying Lumpkin's daughter, Marion McHenry
Lumpkin, large octagon structures were added to opposite sides of the
house in the 1850s. The result is the house shown in a recent
of the house, which has been restored to it's orginal colors using
microscopic analysis of the original paint.
Sources: Dale Travis. Shanon Hays, program coordinator for the T.R.R.Cobb museum.
Entered: August, 2001.
Updated: May, 2007.
Athens. Octagon building. On UGA campus. Torn down in the 1950s
or earlier.
Source: John Seawright.
Entered: June, 2001.
Muscogee County.
Columbus. Double octagon house. Built about 1860.
Located at 527 First Avenue.
Original house occupied by Julia (daughter of governor John Forsyth) and
Alfred Iverson. Leander May acquired the property before the Civil War.
Created a "double-octagon" house. Listed on the National Register of
Historic Places.
Columbus. Double octagon house. The center structure was built in
1844 for Hanson Scott Estes. The Italianate wings - the octagon structures -
were added in 1868 by Lloyd Guyton Bowers.
Left click on the images below for larger versions.
Source: Ellen Puerzer.
Entered: July, 2009.
Rabun County.
Clayton. Octagon house.
Two story. Flat pitched roof and a high cupola.
Source: Dale Travis.
Entered: August, 2002.
Tiger. Octagon house.
Located on old US-441.
Source: Dale Travis.
Entered: August, 2002.
Richmond County.
Augusta. Octagon house. Richard Peacon house.
Source: Augusta Chronicle, April 12, 1998.
Entered: June, 2001.
Talbot County.
Prattsburg. Octagon house. Built in the 1800s. The house
has been in the Parker family for the last 100 years or so, and still
was up to about 1990.
Source: Julian Bethel.
Entered: June, 2001.