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

A permanent record of locations and histories of all known octagon houses (nearly 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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People are encouraged to come forward with what they know.
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Overview


What's Construction information Orson Fowler Books

Octagon Schoolhouse Layout



If you know anything about the houses below, please contact us.



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.

The number of standing old houses in the inventory in year 2010 stands at

406

Where known, the number of houses standing in a state is above the total number that are known to have existed.

The number of structures in the inventory in year 2010 stands at

1,012


Alabama
5 		Hawaii
1 		Massachusetts
82 		New Mexico
0 		South Dakota
7
Alaska
6 		Idaho
0 		Michigan
102 		New York
106/177 		Tennessee
7
Arizona
3 		Illinois
39 		Minnesota
21 		North Carolina
7 		Texas
15
Arkansas
0 		Indiana
24 		Mississippi
2 		North Dakota
1 		Utah
5
California
29 		Iowa
33 		Missouri
3 		Ohio
45 		Vermont
15
Colorado
5 		Kansas
5 		Montana
4 		Oklahoma
1 		Virginia
23
Connecticut
26 		Kentucky
4 		Nebraska
8 		Oregon
3 		Washington
6
Delaware
1 		Louisiana
2 		Nevada
1 		Pennsylvania
64 		West Virginia
3
Florida
11 		Maine
19 		New Hampshire
8 		Rhode Island
19 		Wisconsin
51
Georgia
7 		Maryland
14 		New Jersey
32 		South Carolina
3 		Wyoming
0


District of Columbia
4 		Canada
62 		Mystery Houses


Web site builder bios:

Ellen Puerzer Robert Kline