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Octagon House

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c. 1880. 37586 Yuma County 355
  • (Eric Swegle)

This two-story masonry octagon has a single-story rectangular addition to the south and a shed-roofed porch wrapping six sides. The stuccoed walls rise to a truncated polygonal cap with a central brick chimney. Windows are tall and narrow, with boxed eaves. Round porch posts appear to be alternating smooth and rough-faced sections of cast concrete rising from a solid balustrade. Although lacking the observation cupola that is an element of other octagon houses, this is a vernacular example of the romantic house type popularized by New York lecturer and writer Orson S. Fowler beginning in 1849.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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  • 1879

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Citation

Thomas J. Noel, "Octagon House", [Wray, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-YM04.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 265-265.

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