Brill Octagon House

	The Brill Octagon House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Capon Springs and McIlwee Rds., Capon Springs, West Virginia
Coordinates	39°8′16″N 78°29′27″W / 39.13778°N 78.49083°W
Area	1.7 acres (0.69 ha)
Built	1890
Architect	Unknown
Architectural style	Octagon
NRHP reference No.	16000313
Added to NRHP	May 31, 2016

The Brill Octagon House is a historic octagon house at Capon Springs and McIlwee Roads in Capon Springs, West Virginia. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, that is actually cruciform in shape, but is given an octagonal appearance by the presence of two-story triangular porches that join the corners of the cross. The house was built about 1890 by one of a father-son pair, both named Elias Brill. The elder Brill, a more likely candidate as its builder, was a farm laborer, and was according to family lore guided in the building's design by an architect who was a summer guest at the Capon Springs Resort. The design is apparently a throwback to the briefly popular octagon house movement led by Orson Squire Fowler in the 1850s.^[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP nomination for The Brill Octagon House" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-02-05.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for The Brill Octagon House" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-02-05.

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v t e National Register of Historic Places in Hampshire County, West Virginia
Districts	Capon Springs North River Mills Historic District Washington Bottom Farm
Buildings	Brill Octagon House Capon Chapel Fort Van Meter French's Mill Hampshire County Courthouse Hebron Church Hickory Grove Hook's Tavern Kuykendall Polygonal Barn Nathaniel and Isaac Kuykendall House Literary Hall Old District Parsonage Old Pine Church Captain David Pugh House Scanlon Farm Sloan–Parker House Springfield Brick House Sycamore Dale Valley View Yellow Spring Mill West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind Dairy Barn Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House
Sites	Fort Mill Ridge Civil War Trenches
Structures	Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge Pin Oak Fountain
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampshire County, West Virginia and List of National Historic Landmarks in West Virginia

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