After the White House was burned by the British in 1812, President James Madison was the home of the octagon, and the treaty of Ghent was signed here. He is currently the headquarters of the American Institute of Architects.
The houses are large brick buildings in the classical tradition. Might be seen as a precursor, however, is somewhat different from those of the Victorian houses in the octagon that are essentially domestic structures.
A supporter of octagonal houses was yeoman’s bird hunter Orson. The hunter bird was well-known lecturer America ’s of and writer on phrenology, the pseudoscience of the definition of an individual ‘ s the characteristics of the contours in the head. Among the nineteenth century, the hunter of birds had its mark on American architecture as he molested the benefits of households octagonal home on rectangular and square structures in his book, the octagon house: A home for all, or a new, inexpensive, convenient and superior way of building.
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