The Octagonal Poultry House, also known as the Walter P. Taylor Octagon, is located at 720
U.S. Route 9
U.S. Route 9 (US 9) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway in the states of Delaware, New Jersey, and New York in the Northeastern United States. It is one of only two U.S. Highways with a ferry connection (the Cape May–Le ...
in the
Cold Spring section of
Lower Township
Lower Township is a township in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township, and all of Cape May County, is part of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, and is part of the Philadelphia- Wilmington- Camden, PA-NJ- D ...
in
Cape May County, New Jersey
Cape May County is the southernmost County (United States), county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Much of the county is located on the Cape May peninsula, bound by the Delaware Bay to its west and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and east. ...
, United States. The historic
octagon
In geometry, an octagon () is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon.
A '' regular octagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t, which alternates two types of edges. A truncated octagon, t is a ...
al farm building was built around 1900 to house
hens, who supposedly like to nest in corners. Eventually it became a children's playhouse. Today the broom maker works there at
Historic Cold Spring Village
Historic Cold Spring Village is a non-profit living history museum in the Cold Spring section of Lower Township in Cape May County, New Jersey. The village was listed as the Historic Cold Spring Village Historic District on the New Jersey Regis ...
. Historic Cold Spring Village originally used it as a storage shed, but eventually recognized its potential as a good place to learn about the art of needlework and crocheting.
Historic Cold Spring Village page for Taylor Octagonal House
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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
on March 14, 2008, for its significance in architecture.[ With ]
See also
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* Octagon house
Octagon houses are eight-sided houses that were popular in the United States and Canada mostly in the 1850s. They are characterized by an octagonal (eight-sided) Floor plan, plan and often feature a flat roof and a veranda that circles the hous ...
References
External links
Historic Cold Spring Village website
{{NRHP in Cape May County, New Jersey
Lower Township, New Jersey
Agricultural buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
Buildings and structures in Cape May County, New Jersey
Octagonal buildings in the United States
Agricultural buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places
1900 establishments in New Jersey
National Register of Historic Places in Cape May County, New Jersey
New Jersey Register of Historic Places