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   Framer | Sep 08, 2007 02:11am | #1

   Rez,

    

   Are you talking about soemthing like this?

    

    

   Joe Carola
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   rez | Sep 08, 2007 03:11am | #2

   Yep, that's it, a simple peaked octagon on a standard 4squared wall.

   Couldn't remember having ever seen one or how it might look. Is this typically done or more of an odd thing? Thanks.

   sobriety is the root cause of dementia.   

   Edited 9/7/2007 8:16 pm ET by rez

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   Framer | Sep 08, 2007 03:32am | #3

   Rez,I've never framed one before or can't remember if I've seen one before. I can tell you that I would love to frame one now though.Joe Carola

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   rez | Sep 08, 2007 03:49am | #4

   ha! Be a first then aye?

   Just wondering how it might look as opposed to a standard matching 4 peak.

   Seems the 8peaks could be balanced out symetrically to look alright.

   In thinking concept anyhow.

   But proof of the pudding is in the eating.

   sobriety is the root cause of dementia.   

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   seeyou | Sep 08, 2007 04:15am | #5

   Just wondering how it might look as opposed to a standard matching 4 peak.

   Whaddaya thinking about? A new shed maybe?http://grantlogan.net/

    

   "he ot the placed closed down whyyy thhhattt nnooo gooodddd" - sancho

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   dovetail97128 | Sep 08, 2007 08:35am | #6

   rez, Strikes me that I have seen multi sided roofs over squares in church steeples. Can't think of a specific example nor think of a place that would have a pic, but I bet it has been done more than once in that application."Poor is not the person who has too little, but the person who craves more."...Seneca

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   Framer | Sep 08, 2007 01:57pm | #7

   Check out this house. It's not four walls with an Octagon roof, but it's some house.

   http://my.execpc.com/~drer/octagon.htm

   Joe Carola
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   rez | Sep 08, 2007 04:52pm | #8

   Holy Cow!

   Get a load of that stairway!View Image

   The spiral stairway in the center of the house is one of its outstanding features. It rises in a central square or well, the walls of which consist of three solid brick courses. Each wall, furthermore, has a chimney flue and a hot air duct leading to a register in each of the twelve major rooms.

   The stairway has been called a masterpiece of the stairmaker's art. It is one of the few of its kind in the country. Unsupported on one side, it is so rigidly anchored at the floor levels that it does not yield even to the heaviest step. Its plastered soffits are still without a crack. There are 54 treads on the main circular stairway and 14 from the basement to the first floor. They are spaced so perfectly that one feels no discomfort in climbing the four flights to the top.

   The house has four stories and a roomy octagonal lantern which is crowned with four broad chimneys and rises majestically above the center of the roof. Lanterns of this sort are said to have been common on houses near the New England seacoast. The served in part as watchtowers. From them the mothers, wives or children of seagoing men could get a first glimpse of long-awaited ships bearing their loved ones home. The Octagon House lantern is really the continuation of the stairwell. One of its main purposes is to provide light for the spiral stairway.

   sobriety is the root cause of dementia.