Where is that House from True Blood?
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Do any of you watch True Blood? It’s been extra gross this season, but one of the most fabulous things about it is Russell Edgington’s house. I knew when I saw the octagonal onion-domed beauty that it was in Mississippi (as it is on the show), but I could not remember much else about it.
The estate is called Longwood House and it’s in Natchez, Mississippi.It’s a National Historic Landmark and it’s the largest octagon house in the United States. It is owned by the Pilgrimage Garden Club.
A quick look at Wiki led me to images of other octagon houses. Check them out here. They range from New York to Wisconsin, Mississippi to San Francisco. It’s really fun to see their forms at different scales and in such starkly different settings. Each is remarkable in it’s own way, and it seems no two are alike. For example, compare the one in S.F. to the one in Natchez:
Photo Credits:
- from flickr member sunnybrook100
- by Rosencruz Sumera
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August 30th, 2010 at 4:36 am (#)
My father designed and build an octogon house on stilts in the 70′s. All of the interior rooms were pie shaped. I’m not kidding. He had a pie shaped bed – which was a pie shaped platform with pie shaped foam on top – made to fit his bedroom. This being the 70′s, he also had an entire living room set of bean bag furniture. Even a bean bag coffee table. All in avocado and gold, of course. We kids still joke about that house, though we shouldn’t. Jimmy Hoffa’s nephew bought the hosue from him (another source of family jokes), and Disney World bought the designs (modified) for its guest houses near the golf course.
August 30th, 2010 at 3:39 pm (#)
dawn, you. have. got. to. FIND PICTURES! THat is awesome!
August 31st, 2010 at 4:31 am (#)
Want both of those homes but I hate that it is a waste of space a square or rectangle home is using space better.
August 31st, 2010 at 8:33 am (#)
Heather, when I look at the plans I honestly do not see wasted space at all, surprisingly:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=longwood%20mississippi&w=all