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196:St. Clare's Church (Staten Island, New York)
154:Follen Church Society-Unitarian Universalist
289:Tim Thering Octagon Barn (Plain, Wisconsin)
833:List of octagonal buildings and structures
55:Octagonal buildings and structures in the
627:(1819), Birmingham Township, Pennsylvania
320:Octagon Building (Santa Cruz, California)
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384:The Octagon (Roosevelt Island, New York)
213:Union Chapel (Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts)
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730:Octagonal Schoolhouse (Essex, New York)
455:Andover Public Library (Andover, Maine)
898:. Gem of the Mountains (newsletter of
853:Octagonal Schoolhouse (disambiguation)
820:Andrew Gildersleeve Octagonal Building
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202:The Temple (Old Orchard Beach, Maine)
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148:First Congregational Church, U.C.C.
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554:City Market (Petersburg, Virginia)
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843:Octagon Building (disambiguation)
753:Wrightstown Octagonal Schoolhouse
578:Butte–Lawrence County Fairgrounds
591:Old Post Office (Liberty, Maine)
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635:Mt. Washington Female Academy
314:Navajo Nation Council Chamber
112:Dickey's Octagonal Barbershop
872:The Mount Washington Octagon
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475:, Charleston, South Carolina
378:Hospitals and insane asylums
370:Octagon Towers Condominium,
260:Octagon Barn (Jamaica, Iowa)
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267:, Shelby County, Kentucky
660:Diamond Rock Schoolhouse
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396:Brightwood Beach Cottage
265:Bird Octagonal Mule Barn
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654:Charter Oak Schoolhouse
643:Baltimore City Landmark
639:Mount St. Agnes College
580:, Nisland, South Dakota
574:, Meridian, Mississippi
560:Park and fair buildings
473:Porter Military Academy
398:, Litchfield, Minnesota
348:Chautauqua Auditorium,
271:Octagonal Poultry House
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184:Conference Point Chapel
896:"Local Octagon Houses"
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61:List of octagon houses
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524:Portland Observatory
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372:Miami Beach, Florida
308:Government buildings
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277:Roberts Octagon Barn
178:Seney–Stovall Chapel
128:Seney–Stovall Chapel
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491:Rhinebeck, New York
462:, Atlanta, Illinois
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254:Kinney Octagon Barn
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859:References
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532:, New York
514:, Virginia
356:High rises
242:Round barn
83:incomplete
441:Libraries
34:octagonal
922:Category
827:See also
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508:, Alaska
537:Markets
526:, Maine
303:, Maine
814:Stores
409:Houses
390:Hotels
42:Athens
420:Jails
326:Halls
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