List of octagonal buildings and structures

List of octagonal buildings and structures
Plan of the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
The Tower of the winds in Athens

Octagon 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.

The oldest known octagon-shaped building[citation needed] is the Tower of the Winds in Athens, Greece, which was constructed circa 300 B.C. Octagon houses were popularized in the United States in the mid-19th century and there are too many to list here, see instead List of octagon houses. There are also octagonal houses built in other times and cultures.

This article is a list of octagonal buildings and structures worldwide, excluding houses and windmills.

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Australia

Canada

Houses

At least 19 historic octagon houses are known to exist in Canada distributed across 4 eastern provinces.[1] In Canada, the octagon house craze also engendered an octagonal deadhouse phenomenon. This included octagonal deadhouses, pre-burial edifices, built in the mid to late 1800s along Yonge Street in south-central Ontario, from just north of Toronto to Aurora. At least 3 octagon houses are classified as heritage sites, one in Richmond Hill and the other in King. Extant octagon houses in Canada include the following:

    • Kingsville, octagon house
    • Maple, Ontario, octagon house, Major MacKenzie Drive
    • Milton, Ontario, octagon house, 6103 Guelph Line
    • Morton, Ontario, northeast of Kingston, former octagon schoolhouse, also used as a residence
    • Mount Pleasant, Ontario, 646 Mount Pleasant Road, octagon house now used as a spa
    • Otterville, Ontario, Woodlawn Octagon House, 1861, moved from Millvale
    • Peel County, Ontario, octagon house, 8280 Heritage Road, near Huttonville
    • Port Hope, Ontario, 1856 octagon house
    • Picton, Ontario, Prince Edward County, ca. 1860 octagon house
    • Toronto, Ontario, Leaside, 1841 octagon house
    • Westport, Ontario, octagon house, on the Upper Rideau Lake

Other buildings and structures

China

Germany

Ceiling of the Palatine Chapel in Aachen

Greece

Hungary

Iran

Israel

Italy

Spain

View of the Octagonal Tower at the Alcazar in jerez.
  • Alcazar of Jerez de la Frontera has an Octagonal Tower, in Almohad style

Sweden

United Kingdom

Wells Cathedral plan, showing the octagonal chapter house (top)

United States

See also


References

  1. ^ Kline, Robert V.. "Inventory of Older Octagon, Hexagon, and Round Houses". rvkline. http://www.octagon.bobanna.com/main_page.html. Retrieved November 2, 2010. 
  2. ^ a b c d e Kline, Robert V.. "Inventory of Older Octagon, Hexagon, and Round Houses: Canada". rvkline. http://www.octagon.bobanna.com/CANADA.html. Retrieved June 23, 2008. 
  3. ^ See photo of Sackville one here
  4. ^ Ousby, Ian, Blue Guide: England, 11th ed. 1995, various pages, London: A & C Black ISBN 0-7136-3874-5; New York: WW Norton ISBN 0-393-31340-9

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