old homes listed in your area!!

[bergie]

I was on U.S. Airways yesterday and there was this article in the in flight magazine about old Octagon houses around the country. It listed this website with a listing by state of these old homes. Click and scroll to state list. Some give specific locations, others you will have to research more to find location. Many from 1800s. Good luck! Please report back any good finds.
http://www.octagon.bobanna.com/main_page.html

 

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[Colorado2]

Thanks Bergie. Just happened to be one listed in my neighborhood. Built in 1888. Thanks for the lead!~CO2

 

[zommbee]

Hi Bergie,

Neat link! The Seattle map link for Washington actually shows an image of the one in Seattle.
Sadly, it's LONG gone - at a major intersection of what is now a sea of skyscrapers! Oh, how
fun it would be to hunt beneath the asfault!

Dave
Zommbee

 

[ksczesny]

there is actually one that is not listed in my area.

 

[bergie]

You shoud tell them about it. They are still trying to compile the list.

 

[Shutterbug]

That site is a great resorce! To bad the one in Seattle is paved over for miles around!

 

[Lowbatts]

The one listed as here in Elgin was destroyed a century ago.? The large old home there now is a multi-family dwelling.? I've hunted the yard there too.? It's across from the first public square in Elgin, Gifford Park. The original three stroy octagon was destroyed by fire in 1897. The current multi family rental was built by the famed publisher D.C. Cook and designed by W. W. Abell as a ten room boarding house. The turntable in the garage is still there, put in by the son of D.C Cook who resided there and didn't want to have to back out of the garage. While D. C. still rode a bike to work every day, his son was one of those early roadster mavens that enjoyed cruisng to work. Little history remains of the original octagon that stood at this site outside of a few drawings.

 

[lonewolfe]

Great site you posted there! I found a bunch in MI here, 1 only 10 mi from my house! Tempted to go ask if I can detect the yard! lol

 

[TOWcritter]

My back surgeon lives in one in Lutherville, Maryland. Rehabbed the whole house. Cost him a fortune. Maybe I'll ask to detect his yard and get some of my money back in the form of an old coin or two!