Inventory

of Older Octagon, Hexagon, and Round Houses

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Overview


What's Construction information Orson Fowler Books

Octagon Schoolhouse Layout



The number below each state is the present number of old octagon, hexagon, and round houses and schoolhouses on the investory, 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
82 		New Mexico
0 		South Dakota
7
Alaska
6 		Idaho
0 		Michigan
101 		New York
168 		Tennessee
6
Arizona
3 		Illinois
36 		Minnesota
19 		North Carolina
7 		Texas
13
Arkansas
0 		Indiana
24 		Mississippi
2 		North Dakota
1 		Utah
5
California
29 		Iowa
31 		Missouri
3 		Ohio
43 		Vermont
15
Colorado
5 		Kansas
5 		Montana
3 		Oklahoma
0 		Virginia
20
Connecticut
26 		Kentucky
4 		Nebraska
8 		Oregon
3 		Washington
4
Delaware
1 		Louisiana
2 		Nevada
1 		Pennsylvania
55 		West Virginia
2
Florida
9 		Maine
19 		New Hampshire
8 		Rhode Island
20 		Wisconsin
51
Georgia
7 		Maryland
15 		New Jersey
30 		South Carolina
2 		Wyoming
0


District of Columbia
Canada
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