Thursday, July 14, 2011



Octagon house comes full circle

As designer of Poplar Forest, one of the first octagonal houses in America, Thomas Jefferson probably would have liked Susan Cooper’s house in McLean.
Seen from the roadway, Cooper’s eight-sided house looks farm-friendly, or maybe nautical, like the lighthouse in St. Michaels, Md. — crisp white brick against the surrounding lawn, with a red standing-seam metal roof and a porch that encircles the house at ground level. A second octagonal level sits atop the first, set a few feet back from the edge of the roof below. Popping up in the middle of this confection is a windowed belvedere topped by a cupola, again echoing the eight-sided shape. An oversize glass-topped breezeway attaches the left side of the house to a two-car garage.

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