Hexagon House - Winchester, VA
Posted by: slippeddisk
N 39° 11.240 W 078° 10.485
17S E 744017 N 4341368
The Hexagon house is located at 530 Amherst Street in the city of Winchester, VA. If you are in the Winchester area this house is worth at least a drive by.
Waymark Code: WM28C7
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 09/21/2007
Views: 16
The Hexagon House, 530 Amherst Street, Winchester, is significant as the only
19th-century hexagonal house standing in Virginia. The residence was built between
1871-73 by B. Leathers for James W. Burgess in what was then Frederick County. The
building was partially influenced by Orson S. Fowler's A Home for All, or the Gravel Wall
Mode of Building (1853), a handbook that popularized the polygonal house as the most
practical, economical and healthful in plan for Americans. In keeping with Fowler's
recommendation, the Hexagon House has ventilators in the principal rooms to remove "bad"
air. The house remains in an excellent state of preservation.
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