At one point, this entire home fit on a flatbed truck. That was back in 1978, when this octagonal Topsider home was constructed on site from a kit. It was an affordable, but sturdy housing option, ...
CLYDE — When he was growing up in rural Clyde, Bill Frankart often mowed the lawn for his neighbors, Eldon and Kathryn Powell, who lived in one of the most unique homes in Ohio, an 1850s octagon house ...
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: ...