The Octagonal Poultry House, also known as the Walter P. Taylor Octagon, is a historic
octagon
In geometry, an octagon (from the Greek ὀκτάγωνον ''oktágōnon'', "eight angles") 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, wh ...
al farm building located in
Cold Spring, in
Lower Township in
Cape May County,
New Jersey
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, United States. It was built 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 Regist ...
. 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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On March 14, 2008. it was added to the National Register of Historic Places
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.
See also
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* Octagon house
Octagon houses were a unique house style briefly popular in the 1850s in the United States and Canada. They are characterised by an octagonal (eight-sided) plan, and often feature a flat roof and a veranda all round. Their unusual shape and ...
References
External links
Historic Cold Spring Village website
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
National Register of Historic Places in Cape May County, New Jersey
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