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Carteret County
- Cedar Point. Octagon house. The Hill-Jones house.
Built about 1855. Located at 301 Masonic Avenue.
Renovated around 1900, and again in 1950, and yet again in about 2004..
To what extent is not clear. The house is apparently very
substantially built, by Solomon White Davis, who was both a
mariner and a planter,
and is still basically in very sound condition. Like many houses
of the 1850s time frame, the very finest hardwoods were easily
available, inexpensive, and used for everything.
The original owners, the Hills, apparently
owned a great deal of land in the Cedar Point area in the 1850s.
Most recently owned by the Jones', the house and 60 acres of land
have been donated to the Masons. The house is being renovated.
It is not clear that this means restored. Characteristic of octagon
houses in the Fowler period ( 1848 to 1865 ), there are usually
no original floor plans or design documents.
Photograph, probably taken in the 1950s.
A contemporary photograph.
Sources: R. Kline; "More About Octagons," Carl F. Schmidt; Dale Travis.
Entered: September, 2002.
Updated: March, 2003.
Updated: June, 2004.
Updated: December, 2006.
Cherokee County.
- Topton. Octagon house. As of about 1975 it was being used as a
store.
Source: R. Kline.
Entered: September, 2002.
Haywood County.
- Clyde. Octagon house. Built in about 1905.
Also said to be located in the town of Lake Junaluska.
Source: R. Kline
Entered: September, 2002.
Hyde County
- Bluff Point . Octagon lighthouse building. Built in 1891.
Gull Shoal Light.
Photograph.
Source: Ron Livingston
Entered: March, 2002
- Engelhard, in the Lake Landing Historic District. Octagon house.
Sparrow House (also called the Ink Bottle house), built 1857 by
Dr. William T. Sparrow. Said to be one of only
two octagon houses built in North Carolina in the 19-th century.
1910 photograph.
Photograph.
Photograph,
Brief article.
Sources: R. Kline. Dale Travis provides a contemporary photograph.
Entered: June, 2001.
Updated: November, 2005.
Jones County.
- Swansboro. Octagon house. Built in 1855. Nothing else known.
Source: R. Kline
Entered: August, 2007.
Madison County
Rowan County
- Rockwell Octagon house. The Harr-Hopkins house.
Built about 1903. Now gone.
Source: R. Kline.
Entered: September, 2002.
Tyrrell County.
- Albemarle Sound. Hexagon lighthouse building. Built in 1880.
Laurel Point Light. The lighthouse database lists the structure as "destroyed."
Photograph and history.
Sources: Ron Livingston; Dale Travis.
Entered: March, 2002.
Updated: March, 2003.
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