This rare style flourished for a brief period in the mid-19th century, when author, lecturer and amateur architect Orson S. Fowler published a book extolling the virtues of the eight-sided dwelling: ...
STAMFORD — The city’s only eight-sided home met its end in 1987 when, for the second time in two years, it was gutted by fire. Despite its unlucky demise, the Strawberry Hill Avenue octagon house — ...