It's like living in a giant stop sign or something, but this octagonally shaped house, built around 1862, is about five miles from our more conventional rectangular one.
This one was taken on the fly while my eyes were on the road.There are evidently a bunch of these things around the country and, of course, someone has tried to catalog them. And their website, if one octahome is not enough for you, is accessed by clicking right here.
Below are the two shots of this Monroeville house, from the above-referenced website. The second one is looking down at the staircase from the cupola. Pretty cool. You wonder if the rooms are, like, shaped like pieces of pie or something.
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There's a hotel shaped like that in Ocean City Md, and the rooms are shaped like pie.
That is one cool house. I'm off to the website..
This is weird, I didn't know this design was in search of. I'll be on the look out.
Id love to live in that house! The stairway is awesome.
Awesome house. I wonder why that style of home didn't catch on. Maybe too expensive?
Where would you place the sofa in the pie slice?
Down by the crust at the end (outer wall), I'm guessing. But I don't think the house really has "pie slice" rooms. It would be cool if it did.
I can tell you're a planner, Ben, by that Stop Sign comment. First of all, the house only looks like a Stop Sign when you're looking down on it from above, like a plan on a map. Second, the resemblance to a Stop Sign refers only to its iconographic value, not its inherent value. Since this house was built almost 150 years ago, it was back in the day when "cutting corners" was taken literally and not just as a value statement. That's why we've put the Stop Sign to building this kind of house nowadays.
I lived in this house from 1978-1995. There are 8 rooms on each floor surrounding the staircase. Four of the rooms are large rectangles with four smaller (sort of pie shaped) rooms in between. You could easily place several couches in the large rooms along any of the four walls, although some of the rooms have large windows on the outer wall. It was a lot of fun to grow up in the house.
My nanny lived next door to this house and I played with the children that lived in this house from about 1978 to 1980. I remember it was a maze inside.
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