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Originally Posted by Matthew
I'm posting from memory. My books were packed away when Lauren moved-in last year. I'm not sure where they are now. I studied residential architecture about 10 years ago. Round was seen as the perfect shape for a house among those who wanted to be different. Unfortunately, it was also a difficult shape to build at that time. Octagons were easier (popular in the 1850s - an example exists in San Francisco). Most of the rounded houses I'm aware of are in the northeast. Your example is a dodecagon. Close enough though.
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Thx. The original adobe house was round. The timber-framed remodel is not.
Walter Neff considered his inexpensive-to-build, dome-shaped "bubble" houses his most valuable contribution to architecture.