WASHINGTON

Douglas County.

• Bridgeport. Octagon House. Built in 1914. Now located at 600 12th Street. James Kinney erected this home for use by his daughter and her husband Clyde Gallaher. The house originally stood in Mansfield on Dyer Hill but it was moved in 1994; relocated 5 miles from its original site. It is a most unique octagon. The roof on all 8 sides ends in gables and the cupola itself is 8 gables with oval windows. A finial on the cupola had to be removed while relocating. The exterior is clapboard sided and the front porch is recessed. Brackets decorate the eaves. The interior has a spiral staircase that ends in a round hall on the 2nd floor with 8 equal shaped bedrooms. Every other door to the bedrooms has a glass insert with 4 panes. It is now fully restored and painted white with green trim. It was being considered in 2006 by Pateros Wa moving it there but those plans fell through. Herald Reporter Aug 17, 2006. The home was for sale as recently as 2014.
  
  GPS coordinates: 48.007566 -119.676902
  
  

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  1975	2006	2006
  	1975	1975
  1975	1975	1991

  
  
  2007 photograph
  
  Another recent photograph
  
  Detail of the roof
  
  2007 photograph of the second floor interior
  
  A detailed look at the staircase
  
  Sources: R. Kline. Dale Travis. Ellen Puerzer. May, 1994, issue of Old House Journal.
  Entered: August, 2002.
  Updated: July, 2007.
  Updated: March, 2009.
  Updated October, 2009
  Updated: March, 2010
  Updated: November, 2013
  Updated: September, 2015
• Waterville. Octagon House. Built about 1915. Located at 102 S. Columbia. It is thought that James Kinney, who built the house in Bridgeport, also built this house. There are gables on the roof. Four large gables alternate with four small ones. The porch is recessed. All the windows look replaced and it has been vinyl sided.
  
  GPS coordinates: 47.647129 -120.077185
  
  

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  	1977	1964
  October 20, 1994	October 14, 1993 - part 1	October 14, 1993 - part 2
  c2019	c2019	c2019

  
  
  Source: Sharon Horn, the current owner.
  Entered: October, 2009.
  Updated: September, 2013
  Updated: January, 2016
  Updated: August, 2019

King County.

• Seattle. The John Nations hexagon House. Built in 1875, and lived in by 1876. Located on 1st Avenue - previously Front Street - and Virginia. John Nation( who with his wife Matilda emigrated from England) built a hexagon home on a cliff overlooking the Sound. It was 3 stories porches at all levels. Dr Orlando G. Root moved into the home in 1882 and remained until 1890 when he moved to Moltke & Harrison. Thomas J. McDonagh, manager carpet dept. Daulton Carpet Co., resided there in 1900. In 1901 permits were issued for alterations to the residence. After a 1902 auction of the home’s belongings, a huge regrade to the area was done in 1903 which suggest it was razed or moved at that time. The entire street from 1st to 3rd was cleared.
  
  

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  1878	1878	1884
  1891	1892	April 20, 1922
  April 20, 1922	Undated.	Root obit - 1894
  Sanborn map	1892	August 12, 1902
  January 1, 1902

  
  
  Sources: R. Kline. Ellen Puerzer. Carolyn Marr, Librarian, Museum of History & Industry. John LaMont, Special Collections Department, The Seattle Library.
  Entered: August, 2002.
  Updated: May, 2009.
  Updated: July, 2013

Pacific County.

• Long Beach. Round hotel. The Portland Hotel. Built in the 1880s. Burned in 1914. Built by the Hanniman family near the north end of the train depot.
  
  

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  The postcard above is circa 1910.
  
  Source: Ellen Puerzer.
  Entered: February, 2010.

Skagit County.

• Sedro Woolley. Octagon house. This, Mae and Harry Osborne's first home was originally the gazebo/ bandstand, located at the crook of Metcalf street near Murdock . (at the Fairhaven and Southern railway.) The bottom story served as a candy shop in the 1890s. The town orchestra played from the open-air second story and stowed their instruments and uniforms below. By the time that the Osbornes married, it had been moved to the lot that druggist Albert Holland owned on Murdock street south of the present Sedro-Woolley museum. It had long open staircase. The late Judge Hugh Ridgway told story that he bought the gazebo years ago after it had been moved around on a flat wagon and deposited on several different lots until no one wanted this piece of local history anymore. It was last in the backyard of a local residence, both stories closed in and used for a rec room and private office. Current status unknown.
  
  

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  c1920

  
  
  Source: Ellen Puerzer.
  Entered: October, 2011.
  Updated: January, 2016

Washington County.

• Liberty Lake. Octagon house or cottage. Located at 1927 South Liberty Drive. Built by a merchant marine referred to as "The Captain," possibly as a retirement dwelling, possibly around 1900. As assessor page suggests 1935. Once had a widows walk on the roof. The bedroom has the orginal knotty pine, floor to ceiling. The original staircase, with a rope, still exists too. It appears to have several additions.
  
  

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  Source: Ellen Puerzer.
  Entered: March, 2010.