List of octagonal buildings and structures in the United States

Main article: List of octagonal buildings and structures

The Octagon (Roosevelt Island, New York), once an insane asylum

Octagonal buildings and structures are characterized by an octagonal plan form, whether a perfect geometric octagon or a regular eight-sided polygon with approximately equal sides.

Octagon-shaped buildings date from at least 300 B.C. when the Tower of the Winds in Athens, Greece, was constructed. Octagonal houses were popularized in the United States in the mid-19th century by Orson Squire Fowler and many other octagonal buildings and structures soon followed.

This article is a list of octagonal buildings and structures in the United States. Many of these are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Barber shops

• Dickey's Octagonal Barbershop, Rives, Tennessee

Churches, chapels, synagogues, etc.

• Alberts Chapel, Sand Ridge, West Virginia
• Falcon Tabernacle, Falcon, North Carolina
• First Congregational Church, U.C.C. (Naponee, Nebraska)
• Follen Church Society-Unitarian Universalist, Lexington, Massachusetts
• Holy Ghost Catholic Church (Kula, Hawaii)
• McBee Methodist Church, Conestee, South Carolina
• Mercy Chapel at Mill Run, Selbysport, Maryland
• Seney-Stovall Chapel, Athens, Georgia
• Conference Point Chapel Williams Bay, Wisconsin
• Seventh Church of Christ, Scientist (Seattle, Washington), an irregular octagon
• The Temple (Old Orchard Beach, Maine)
• Third Church of Christ, Scientist (Washington, D.C.) (demolished)
• Union Chapel (Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts)

Farm buildings including barns

Octagonal barn in Plain, Wisconsin

Main article: Round barn

• Fobes Octagon Barn, Lanesboro, Iowa
• Kinney Octagon Barn, Burr Oak, Iowa
• Octagon Barn (Jamaica, Iowa)
• Octagonal Poultry House, Cold Spring, New Jersey
• Roberts Octagon Barn, Sharon Center, Iowa
• Secrest Octagon Barn, Downey, Iowa
• Tim Thering Octagon Barn (Plain, Wisconsin)

Forts

• Fort Edgecomb, Maine

Government buildings

• Navajo Nation Council Chamber, a National Historic Landmark, Window Rock, Arizona
• Octagon Building (Santa Cruz, California)

Halls

• Franklin County G. A. R. Soldiers' Memorial Hall, Hampton, Iowa
• Octagon Hall Museum, Franklin, Kentucky - built by Andrew Jackson Caldwell (NRHP)
• Chautauqua Auditorium, Waxahachie, Texas

High Rises

• Tower Life Building, San Antonio, Texas

Hospitals and insane asylums

• The Octagon (Roosevelt Island, New York)

Hotels

• Brightwood Beach Cottage, Litchfield, Minnesota
• Octagon Hotel, Oyster Bay, New York

Houses

• Poplar Forest, Bedford, Virginia
• List of octagon houses, a list of many individual dwellings.

Jails

Daviess County Rotary Jail

• Daviess County Rotary Jail and Sheriff's Residence, Gallatin, Missouri

Libraries

Waring Library

• Andover Public Library (Andover, Maine)
• Atlanta Public Library, Atlanta, Illinois
• Goodnow Library, Sudbury, Massachusetts
• Waring Library, on the former campus of Porter Military Academy, Charleston, South Carolina
• Red Hook Public Library, (Red Hook, New York)
• Ram Dass Library, Omega Institute (Rhinebeck, New York)

Lighthouses

• Eldred Rock Light, Alaska
• Cape Henry Light, Virginia
• Point Judith Light, Rhode Island
• Portland Observatory, Maine

Markets

City Market in Petersburg, Virginia

• City Market (Petersburg, Virginia)

Park and fair buildings

• Floral Hall, Lexington, Kentucky
• Highland Park Dentzel Carousel and Shelter Building, Meridian, Mississippi

Post offices

• Old Post Office (Liberty, Maine)

Schools and colleges

The former schoolhouse built in 1859 in Skaneateles, New York is now a private residence

Sodom Schoolhouse

• The "Bee Hive", a former schoolhouse built by Quakers in 1859 in Skaneateles, New York
• Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse and Octagonal School, Birmingham Township, Pennsylvania
• Charter Oak Schoolhouse, Schuline, Illinois
• District No. 13 School, Ortonville, Minnesota
• District No. 92 School, Jackson, Minnesota
• Florence Corners School, Florence, Ohio
• Cowles Hall, Elmira College, Elmira, New York
• Hood Octagonal School, Newtown Township (Delaware Co.), Pennsylvania
• Modern Times School, Brentwood, New York
• Malmborg School, Bozeman, Montana
• Octagonal Schoolhouse (Cowgill's Corner, Delaware)
• Octagonal Schoolhouse (Essex, New York)
• Octagon Stone Schoolhouse, South Canaan, Pennsylvania
• Sheldon Jackson School, Sitka, Alaska
• Sodom Schoolhouse, Montandon, Pennsylvania
• Wrightstown Octagonal Schoolhouse, Wrightstown, Pennsylvania

Stores

• Andrew Gildersleeve Octagonal Building, Mattituck, New York, combination residence and store

See also

• Octagon barn (disambiguation)
• Octagon Building (disambiguation)
• Octagon House (disambiguation)
• Octagonal Schoolhouse (disambiguation)