List of octagonal buildings and structures in the United States

You are missing the Tower Life, in San Antonio, Texas. It’s the only octagonal shaped high rise in the nation. It was originally the Smith-Young Tower in 1929.

Tower Life Building

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

Churches, chapels, synagogues, etc.

Farm buildings including barns

Octagonal barn in Plain, Wisconsin

Forts

Government buildings

Halls

Hospitals and insane asylums

Hotels

Houses

Jails

Daviess County Rotary Jail

Libraries

Waring Library

Lighthouses

Markets

City Market in Petersburg, Virginia

Park and fair buildings

Post offices

Schools and colleges

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

Stores

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Cowles Hall 2010 renovation info, including photo of octagonal central structure
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