Natchez. "Longwood", octagon house. Very elaborate brick house with porches, bays, tower, onion dome. Designed by Samuel Sloan for Haller Nut, who is reputed to have had a pre-Civil War fortune of up to $10 million, and owned over a thousand slaves on four plantations. Construction began in the spring of 1860. The U.S. Civil War started, and it was never finished. Reputed to be the largest octagonal house in North America, it would have had four floors, and thirty two major rooms.

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Sources: M. Culver. Dale Travis supplies photographs.
Entered: June, 2001.
Updated: February, 2007

Horn Lake. Octagon house. Built in the early 1800s by Dr. Samuel Raines.
Source: Elizabeth Seeley
Entered: July, 2002.

Lombardy. Octagonal office building. Two story. The J. K. Millen office building. The artesian well was just drilled.

Shown in a circa 1903 photograph.

Source: Lewis Millen
Entered: May, 2005.

Ocean Springs. Octagonal house. Now gone. Nothing else known.
Source: R. Kline.
Entered: September, 2002.

Hazelhurst. Octagonal house. Now gone. Nothing else known.
Source: R. Kline.
Entered: September, 2002.