Octagon Buildings Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By TeamMoehrke on 17-Nov-02. Waypoint GCAA48

Cunningly named 'Octagon Lodge' at North Mymms, near St Albans and Hatfield, is the old Gate Lodge for the North Mymms estate, which is Hertfordshire's second grandest stately home, after Hatfield House.

This octagon building ist standing in Muenster/Germnay.

Greetings
Schnueffelnasen

This is the eight sided Carousel in Story City Iowa.

Two of these are side by side in Portland, CT. This one is currently a doctor's office.

Happy New Year to all and to all a good night...

We found it near Ostfriesland Germany. Many thnaks and greetings Snowdream

This octagon shaped building is home to the First Assembly of God Church in Ozark, Arkansas. It was built around 1990.
Thanks for the cache.

An actual family home in northern Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. TFTC

Concord, California

Glad to get this one logged before it's too late. This house is located only about 4 or 5 away from mine, but wouldn't you know, I'd wait 'til the last minute to log it!

It is a double octagon house. There are two octagons, attached with a center section. It is a custom built house, about 15 years old.

Checked with Locationless Proximity Analyzer

This was on private property at the back of the main house. It is a stand alone building and I couldn't figure out just what it was used for but you can see by the roof line that it is octagonal. It was starting to get dark when I saw it and got turned around to take the picture. I was surprised the pictures came out as clear as they did.

This is a church in New Castle, Indiana. An addition has been added in the past, but the octagonal shape still follows through in the hallway where the addition attaches.

This octagonal-shaped building is the Metropolitan Toronto Police Headquarters on Bay Street, just a few steps from where I work.

In Cheektowaga, NY.
It is part of a Chaple and mausoleum.
There is another one on the property, if any one needs one to log.

I found it in Solingen / Germany.

The upper part of the roof have 5 corner, this Building is part of an Museum.

Greetings from Germany

Ralf

I was on my way to a cache today and happened to notice this Octagon building. This is the out-of-service Queen's Wharf Lighthouse in Toronto, Canada.

This octagon shaped building is used as the park head quarters for Glen Falls. Got this locationless, and several other caches including an earth cache just a few feet away! I'll include a pic of that too as the falls are great!!

Found this one in Atlanta on a cache run with UTfans. Very nice home.

this house has the nickname the witches house and is presently empty and has been for many years it use to be the gatehouse for an old boys borstal that was burnt down in the 70`s

This is a jewelry,gold ,& silver store in Columbus,In

Found this Octagon Building while driving from [URL=http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=2e2994c1-d41a-40b4-a341-84dbd7f745da]Lenus Mars[/URL] to [URL=http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=4cdbc9d3-224f-483b-9aa1-1aa0208a4ba8] Tabula[/URL] at Hatzenport(Moselle), Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany.

schmittinger

In der Nähe von Kempten (Bayern) gefunden.
greetings

This is a barn shaped in an octagon in Pleasant Prairie, WI

When I was a kid, my Dad would bank here. We would dress up, the whole family, just to go to the bank!

I found this Octagon Buildings in aboriginal's clan, The name of this clan is "Ita"
It is located in Nantou county, Taiwan(R.O.C)
This Octagon Buildings seems to be the aboriginal's recreation room

Found this one on an decommishined Air Force base in Sacramento Cal. Little yellow is proud to be in the pic. Thanks, Cache On!

This house is located in Mars Hill Maine. There are tow eight sided homes built by the same person. I have always wonder why any one would build a small home of this type as there appears to be so much wasted space but I have never been inside either so I really don't know. The cache did make me look at it a little more carefully. The photo is not very good so I will try to get a better next time I go by the house. In this one not all the sides are the same which give the house a strange look.

Found while looking for a multi-cache in this area. It is one of the oldest windmill in Trois-Rivières and has been moved to be reconstructed on the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières’s campus according to the original design. It has an 8 sided roof…

Un des plus vieux moulins à vent de Trois-Rivières, trouvé en faisant une multi-cache dans ce coin là. IL a été déménagé sur le campus de l’ Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières et reconstruit selon les plans originaux. Le toit compte huit côtés…

This is in the City of Monessen, PA. Monessen is named for many of the imigrants that moved into the area to become steel workers from Essen, Germany. Monessen is located on the Monongahela River. So you get Mon-Essen or Monessen. The building is actually an retirement home - we call it the tower. Enjoy the photos.

Thanks for the hunt, that makes kill #173 for us.

TEAM COPYCAT
California, PA

This rather unique home even bills itself as the Octagon House. It's located on the Chain of Lakes vacation area just outside of Waupaca, WI. We would have loved to check it out more, but it is a private residence.

This house in Oneonta, NY was built in 1870 as a single family home. Now cut up into apartments. Is on the corner of Grand and Division Streets.

Finally found one!!!!

The welcome center at Towamensing Trails: a poconos retreat, in Albrightsville, PA.

Peace - Love - Fog

While being at Torviscas beach (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain) the other day with my wife I looked around and saw this building. Today I took my GPSR and DigiCamera with me to log it.
Thanks for the cache and
saludos Paco

Found in Herford/Germany. The octagon Tower in Front of the building belongs to an old store, which is closed now.
Jora

Found an octagon building in the middle of a square in Newport Village off of Ioco Rd. in Port Moody, B.C. Canada. It houses a bakery & deli, grocery & florist shop. Picture not too good as taken at night, but I was so excited to come across it while on our weekend visit to the BC coast.

These little buildings or in Oxford Mississippi off Hathorn Rd.

Built in 1880, the Galveston Garten Verin's, a social club,is situated among Kempner Park's five acres. Visitors welcome.

We found this Octagon Shaped Building along the Pacific Coast Highway in Laguna Beach, California. It is part of a house and has a beautiful ocean view from the property. Thanks for the fun search.

The octagon I found was in Peachland, B.C., Canada. It was built in 1910 and was used as a Baptist Church for 50 years. Now it is the Peachland Museum. Location is: 5890 Beach Av. (requirement for Coin Quest Game)

Octagonal home in the Alviso area of norther San Jose, California. The roof is even more ambitions, appearing to have maybe 20-40 sides! It's a peculiar home but at least it's more interesting than the usual boring subdivisions so prevalent around here.

I found this octagon building at a farm for children in Neuss, a city near Düsseldorf, Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany.

Greetings from Germany
Wetterwachs

We have driven past the site for weeks now wondering what they were building. As it final started to take shape we found out they were erecting a new church. Today my wife noticed it had a weird shape to it. We stopped and looked and lo and behold it is an Octagon shaped church. Really neat. The church sign has not be erected yet but will update the log with a picture when they do.

We found our octagonal building in the dark while looking for another cache in Ottawa. Check out the pictures and TFTH.

Founded from Reutin, nearby Lindau Bodensee, Germany

Don't know if you will accept it but I take a chance...)))
This building is very interesting: it's an old Waterman Fountain Pen Company factory located in the old St.Lambert, Quebec, Canada. Actually, his restoration is almost completed and it's know a deluxe condo building.
You can see the octagon structure. I don't know why originally they put this on the rooftop of this factory. Anyway, know, it's either the ceiling of the stairs or a part of a deluxe penthouse))
Greetings from Quebec!!

An unusual outbuilding for a farm in Great Haywood, Staffordshire.

This is the second of two octagonal structures in Williams Park, Brownsburg Indiana. There are numerous octagonal picnic shelters also. Also, a rocket themed playground called Blast Off. If you check the coords for my find with Google Earth, you will see that this park is labeled as a possible missle site.
It is the home to several other traditional caches, a multi cache and a CD exchange ammo box cache.

This is the Harnsberger Octagonal Barn, also known as the Mount Meridian Octagonal Barn, near Grottoes Virginia (it can be seen from the intersection of VA 256 and VA 895; you can get closer by travelling down VA 772 to VA 769. It is privately owned, so the coordinates are from the where I took the picture without the GPS.

It is a look-out post for an ecluse at Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

It's a challenge to find an octagonal building in Belgium.
Reviewing the web we could find this link http://bruxelles-balade.be/news/62.shtml

This is a gothic well from the XVth century

The building is situated in the Egmont park, a nice quiet place near the fashionable areas of the city

Pierre and Anne

On the way home today my SIL and I saw this coffee shop - had to flip a quick U-turn to log this nifty 8-sided building.

Sturgeon Point Ontario Canada. This beautiful octagonal church, constructed entirely of wood and glass, was the site of my daughter's wedding in 2004. Built in 1915, little has changed about the structure - there is still no heat, plumbing or running water. Services are only held during July and August. The full history is given on the plaque located just outside the church. I have included a picture of the plaque with my log.

La grange octogonale de St-Fabien, Rimouski, Québec, Canada.

La grange octoannale de Saint-Fabien est sauvée, soutient le comité de mise en valeur du bâtiment patrimonial. Les travaux de réparation apportés à la structure du toit sont complétés et les bénévoles s'affairent à poser une membrane d'étanchéité avant de refaire la couverture en bardeaux de cèdre, comme à l'origine. " Le ministère de la Culture et des Communications veut classer la grange, ce qui la protège dès maintenant, écrit le comité par voie de communiqué.

Le comité souhaite dévélopper un lieu consacré à l'agriculture, dans la grange.
2004-11-04

I found this octagon building in English park of Krasny Dvur Chateau in Czech republic. This building is one of the romantic structures placed in the park - this one is commemorated to well-know German poet J.W. Goethe, who personally visited the park. Thanks for the cache

Found this Octogonal Building while doing a cache in the area. We don't know the history but it is currently being used as an apartment house. Pretty neat structure. lakeman&tagalong

OBJECT: Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption
LOCATION: Mariánské Lázne (Marienbad), Goethe´s Square, Czech Republic - West Bohemia
HISTORY: The place of worship was built in the neo-byzantine style in 1844-1848. The construction of the church was initiated by the abbot J. Heinl of the monastery Teplá, in the spirit of the abbot K. K. Reitenberger who had resigned. The plan of the orthogonal basilica, erected at the site where the chapel of the birth of the Virgin Mary had been standing since 1820, was designed by the architect J. G. Gutensohn of Munich in Bavaria. The construction was overseen by Anton Thurner of Primda (architect of the monastery of Teplá) and Joseph Kranner (builder and sculptor from Prague)

This house is located at HÃ¥nes outside Kristiansand in southern Norway. The funny thing about this one (there are actually two next to each other) is that it can turn around its centre, so that for example the sun always is in a favourable position!

This is the "Schloßturm" in Düsseldorf.
It´s place is the Altstadt (Beer is everywhere [xx(] ) of Düsseldorf.

This is an octagon shaped house connected to a smaller octagon shaped garage located at 10500 Elena Dr NE in Albuquerque, New Mexico

5pm Called in at Janit's Texas Diner in Kaeo, Northland, New Zealand for a cup of coffee. This is an octagon shaped restaurant built by owners from Texas, USA.
M&P

Park Central Leasing office in Santa Clara, CA

Aurora, Oregon. This Octagon House is a beautiful residence located accross from a city park. It looks like a fun place to live - sort of a treehouse for adults.

This house is the 'Othar C. Wamsley House' and is part of the National Register of Historic Places. It is located on 5th Street in Hamilton, MT. It was inducted into the registry on Aug. 26, 1988. It is a beautiful house that is still being used as a residence.

The following information was found at the National Register of Historic Places.
(http://nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/MT/Ravalli/state2.html)
Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer: Wamsley,Other C.
Architectural Style: Octagon Mode
Area of Significance: Architecture
Period of Significance: 1900-1924

One of the most beautiful one family dwelling houses of the world - situated close to the city of Stockholm.

There is a group of octagonal buildings in Cassiobury Park in Watford, England. Their uses include changing rooms for the paddling pool and a Snack hut (attached). We have not included a GPS shot (we forgot!) but as proof that we were caching at this location, we have logged the multi-cache "Hornets Hide 12 - Cassiobury Park" and this is Waypoint 1 in that multi. We completed and logged this cache on this same date.

Location: Abtei Marienstatt, Westerwaldkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

We found this octagonal building named "Kriegerkapelle Marienstatt" on our way to the cache "Valentinstag #3" (GCMRWR). It is located near the Cistercian Abbey of Marienstatt in the Westerwaldkreis district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

You can find more information about the abbey (German language only) in the German Wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abtei_Marienstatt or at the abbey's website http://www.abtei-marienstatt.de .

The "Kriegerkapelle" (Warriors' Chapel), built in 1935/36, was dedicated to the memory of the local soldiers who were killed in action during World War I. A memorial plaque dedicated to the local soldiers who were killed in action during World War II was added later.

Nowadays, the people who pray there are encouraged to pray for peace, so that the chapel may now serve as a "Friedenskapelle" (Peace Chapel).

We apologize for the bad picture quality, but our digicam was running out of batteries when we got there, so we had to use Sanne's mobile phone in order to take the required pictures.

Thanks for the cache!

Sanne & Kiki

This is the office for a contractor that builds octagon buildings in NW Florida. The building is in Panama City, FL. TFTC.

This Ocatgon Building ist the tower of the Ruin Hohenegg (Dunkelsteiner Wald, Austria). The former Castle Hohenegg dates back at least to the middle of the 12th century when the Graf v. Poigen-Rebgau was the authenticated owner from 1140 to 1188. The most famous owner was Raimund von Montecuccoli (1609-1680). In contemporary publications it was described as the "Pearl of Austria" so it must have been a wunderful building.
Sorry to say: After removing the roof tiles the castle more and more went to rack and ruin into it´s current state.
As you can see on the fotos the base of the tower is four-sided, but the main part is that octagonal tower which daomitates the landscape of the whole area.
Happy Caching
Die Höhlenbären (Tina & Pezi)

This is the NW Natural Gas building in Portland Oregon.

I found 4 octagonal buildings in Kosice, Slovakia.

ahoi!
found this one in Sierksdorf / Germany
greetz
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THIS PIC IS NOT THAT GREAT I WILL TAKE ANOTHER SHOT WITH MY DIGITAL AND THEN I WILL POST IT. THIS OCTAGON HOUSE IS ON THE CORNER OF LAKESIDE AVE AND CALIFORNIA AVE IN LORAIN OHIO ON LAKE ERIE.TH HOUSE HAS A GREAT VIEW OF THE MARINA AND THE LORAIN LIGHTHOUSE...THX ...RAGEXN!!!

I found this old octagonal chapel of St.Maria nearby from village Slavetin, Czech republic

Late logging this one. Found this over a month ago while I was looking for another cache and I just now found the coordinates.

Just an octagon house. It has been here at least 25 years that I am aware of.

I found this Building today in a castle with a very little Village called "Westerburg" in Germany.

SYSTeam

A nice litte tower in Bremen, Germany.
TFTC
Keitaro64

We found this little 8-corner-house at the entrence of Rheda-Castle. It has a door and a little window at the backside.

Happy hunting from Jack Russel Team

The Octagon house I found is located on Makyes Road, Onondaga Hill near Syracuse, NY. This house is rather unique as it is circular at the base but the sides are octagonal and it appears not to have a basement which is almost unheard of in the cold North. It also sits off of the ground.

I found this clocktower beside a church in southwest of Sweden. The church is from 1200 century.

Office building in Berwick Pa,

This is a small restaurant and bar in the 1st district of Vienna, Austria. It blends in into the trees with its unique roof, has doors and windows and is a great hangout in the evenings.

Beutelteufelweibchen

[This entry was edited by Beutelteufelweibchen on Saturday, October 01, 2005 at 2:41:06 PM.]

This octagon building is located near Downtown Buffalo, NY. I'm guessing it's an office building of some-sorts.

Mayville, Michigan
5:15p
Wow! What a beautiful house!!! Now let's get real. There's no possible way to search through over 900 logs to see if THIS house has been listed already, so if so, I'm very sorry. But it IS beautiful! Now turned into a Bed & Breakfast, it was built in 1870 by William Randall. It supposedly had an octagon carriage house, but I didn't see it there. It's listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and is also a Michigan Centennial Farm. Here is an excerpt about it:
"The William Randall House is a two-story, balloon frame, Octagon house surmounted by an octagonal cupola. A one-and-one-half-story, rectangular, gabled wing projects from one side and a single-story porch surrounds the other sides. Each level is ornamented with a denticulated cornice and the sash windows are elaborated with hoods. The William Randall House is a well-preserved and unusual example of one of the few octagon houses in Michigan. Unlike typical octagon houses, the main body of the Randall House was built onto an existing gabled structure and placed the kitchen in the new section. William Randall, a farmer and carpenter, completed this house in approximately 1870 to 1872. Never modified, the house is currently in good condition."

So there you go!

This octagonal building is located in San Diego's Seaport Village and houses an 1890's vintage carousel listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Thanks, TeamMoehrke, for this locationless cache. We'll miss them when they're gone.
mmcgr & Minnie

This building was built in the 70's and was originaly used for a liquor store. It now is the office for a used car lot. It is located in Grain Valley Mo.

The New Haven Lighthouse is located at Lighthouse Point Park. It was opened in 1847 and is octagonal in shape. It is made of sandstone. A great place to have a wonderful adventure!

Found this by chance when doing "Bratch Locks"

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=7c09f509-6a68-4e05-ab01-25ba0a498998

This building was the old toll house for Bratch locks on the Staffs and Worcester canal.

A most unusual Octagonal building - Hoylake Lighthouse on Wirral (UK). Its odd as its over 1/4 mile from the seafront and you can drive right around it on 4 roads.
The photos were taken well into the evening with zoom, but you can still make out the octagonal walls, and 8 glass panes in the top

This eight sider is a barn located in Rea Missouri. It located on a farm that has raised registered Angus cattle for more than 50 years.

This is the Loren Andrus Qctagon House in Washington, Michigan. This house was built in 1860. I recall reading stories on it use as a stop on the underground railroad. More of a history of this house is available at www.octagonhouse.org

One of the smallest bars in Turku, Finland. Has been an old well.

This eight-sided building is in San Rafael, California. It stood vacant for a long time, and is now in the process of being re-developed or restrored. I have no idea how it will eventually be used.

found along rt 422 near Stouchsburg, Pa ..a nursery bldg..

This nice octagon barn is still in use in rural Rush County, Indiana.

octogon building in Laval Quebec Canada. "The pavilon papineau"

Very nice home near Hershey, PA

This is part of City Hall in Baldwin Park, CA.

I found the newly cronstructed "Clover Valley Comm Church" on highway 503 NE of Woodland, WA. over a year ago, but forgot to log the find until now.

This is a 'Pill box' one of many that can be found in teh UK.
The PILLBOX is the first example of defensive work seen by most people. Which is not surprising as over 18,000 were constructed across the British Isles to resist Nazi invasion during Hitler's proposed `Operation Sealion`, the planned German Invasion of England set for 1940.
This pill box is found aside the River Medway near Tonbridge in Kent.