The Octagon: A Home for All

Book

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Name/Title

The Octagon: A Home for All

Entry/Object ID

2016.002.105

Description

Describes the building fad of octagonal houses that swept across America in the mid-19th century. Republication of the 1853 edition, originally titled "A Home for All, or The Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building." xii, 192 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. (softcover)

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2016.002

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2016)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Architecture, Domestic, Buildings, Octagonal

Book Details

Author

Fowler, O. S. 1809-1887

Edition

Dover ed.

Series

Dover Books on Architecture

Publisher

Dover Publications

Place Published

Location

New York, NY

Date Published

1973

Call No.

NA7125 .F775 1973

ISBN

0486228878

LCCN

72093768

Notes

Copy No.: 0

Location

Location

Building

Missroon Library

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: By Orson S. Fowler; with a new introduction by Madeleine B. Stern. Reprint of the 1853 ed. published by S. R. Wells, New York, under title: A home for all. Includes bibliographical references (p. xii).

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Create Date

December 19, 2016

Updated By

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Update Date

February 16, 2023