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In Mendocino, California, a couple renovate an unusual midcentury "tree house," turning it into a vacation rental that takes advantage of the nature around it. Welcome to How They Pulled It Off, where ...

Motorists traveling on Green Street can’t help noticing an unusual-looking house, unlike anything else in the city. Many know it as “The Octagon House” because of its distinctive eight-sided design, ...

Claudia Waddell Harris, a mystery writer in the early 20 th Century, used the abandoned basement of Barbour County's Octagon House for the setting of one of her most successful short stories "The ...

An architectural curiosity with charming original details and modern updates, this dwelling was part of a brief fad for octagonal living in the 19th century. Eight-sided houses popped up in small ...

One of San Francisco’s last remaining octagon-shaped homes has found a buyer after about a year on the market and just over $2 million in price cuts. Known locally as the Feusier Octagon House, after ...

LOS ANGELES – Unveiling the new veranda on Pasadena’s famous 1893 Longfellow-Hastings Octagon Home that was removed around 1917 will be the centerpiece of Heritage Square museum’s 40th birthday bash ...

FOND DU LAC - Uncertainty hangs over Fond du Lac's historic Octagon House, once a stop on the Underground Railroad, as its owner faces foreclosure over an unpaid loan. Marlene Hansen, who has owned ...

This is the 150th anniversary of one of San Francisco's eight-sided wonders: the Octagon House at Gough and Union streets in Cow Hollow. The house, which is open to the public three days a month ...

San Francisco’s famed historic eight-sided Green Street home took another price cut. The home, one of two remaining octagonal houses in the city and one of the oldest homes on Russian Hill, hit the ...