In San Francisco, a rare octagon house—a throwback to an architectural fad that once swept the nation—is slated to come on the market for $8.6 million.
In the 1850s, the time the property was constructed, octagon houses were in vogue, thanks in large part to the book “A Home for All; Or, The Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building” by Orson Squire Fowler, according to San Francisco’s planning commission. A New York phrenologist, Mr. Fowler linked a person’s well-being with the shape and construction of their home and believed that building homes in the shape of an octagon would provide for better light and ventilation.
“The fad resulting from Fowler’s book swept several sections of the country and has left us with a hundred or more Octagons nationwide,” according to the planning commission’s report on the house. Many of them were built in New York and New England as well as in the South and Southwest. The property, known as the Feusier Octagon House, was built according to guidelines set out in the book. Designated a historic landmark around 1970, it is one of the oldest homes in the city’s upscale Russian Hill neighborhood and one of just two remaining octagon houses in the city, according to the planning commission.
The house survived the 1906 earthquake and damage from a subsequent fire. “She is very sturdy and tends to persevere,” said Sheila Billman Nahi, one of the sellers.
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