Talk:Octagon house

message: For those interested, there are two octagon houses less than a mile apart on Ramshorn Rd, in Dudley, Massachusetts, US.  I drive by them several times a week.  From the car, they seem to be pretty old.  --Ebon Elza 23:51, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: At least if they're listed on the National Register of Historic Places, they would deserve articles.  However, I don't spot likely candidates for these on the List of Registered Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts. doncram (talk) 23:28, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Examples of octagon houses

message: There was an advertisement for an octagon house in Fond du Lac, WI pasted into this page.  It was inappropriate for Wikipedia although of interest, as an octagon house open to the public as a museum / tourist attraction. For more information see ["http://www.OctagonHouseFdL.com].
:Actually that house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, indicating notability, and deserves an article.  I just started the article, at Octagon House (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin), and I included an external link to the above URL.  The notability for NRHP listing apparently includes the fact that it was a stop on the Underground railway. I didn't see the "advertisement" about it, but thanks for keeping some notice about it here. doncram (talk) 00:02, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Advertisement

message: Note esp. to User:Clariosophic - sorry to mangle your recent contribution, it spurred me to finally stop procrastinating and do the edits I've been mulling over for weeks. Not finished yet but rearranged the gallery as examples of design variations. I'm writing more on Fowler, offline as yet, to cover the gravel wall etc. Got his book from Amazon so no shortage of material.
ProfDEH (talk) 12:05, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem. The end result is what counts and it looks much better now. clariosophic (talk) 18:54, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Strange house. I guess the indentation is just on one side. ProfDEH (talk) 21:00, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples etc. 

message: I am thinking again that this article should be renamed, probably to "Octagon house (architectural style)" or "Octagon house architecture".  There are other architectural style articles out there, like Colonial Revival architecture and Queen Anne Style architecture.
This comes up because of someone's decision to reorganize the set up of articles here, so now "Octagon House" (rather than "Octagon House (disambiguation)" is a disambiguation page, which seems bad to me given that this page is named the same except one downcased letter.  I raised discussion about that Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation#disambig when dab would have same name except capitalization as another.  But, a solution to any weirdness would be move this page to a name clearly showing it is an architectural style, and then either Octagon House or Octagon house could be the dab, with the other redirecting to the dab. doncram (talk) 12:37, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: As you know I think the term octagon house is used mostly as a reference to the style, and the disambiguation should be subsidiary. If you were looking for a place called the 'something octagon house' you'd be directed here and immediately see there is a list of such houses. It would certainly better if the capitalisation made no difference.
While I'm at it, can we get someone to grade the article? ProfDEH (talk) 16:05, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renaming, again 

message: This article may interest contributors to this article.  69.249.66.100 (talk) 20:35, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article