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Octagon House

Address: 2645 Gough St., Pacific Heights, San Francisco, CA | Map It
Phone: 415/441-7512

Category: Houses/Mansions
Location: Pacific Heights

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Fodor's Review:

This eight-sided home sits across the street from its original site on Gough Street; it's one of two remaining octagonal houses in the city (the other is on Russian Hill), and the only one open to the public. White quoins accent each of the eight corners of the pretty blue-gray exterior, and a colonial-style garden completes the picture. Inside, it's full of antique American furniture, decorative arts (paintings, silver, rugs), and documents from the 18th and 19th centuries. A deck of Revolutionary-era hand-painted playing cards takes an anti-monarchist position: in place of kings, queens, and jacks, the American upstarts substituted American statesmen, Roman goddesses, and Indian chiefs.

Cost: Free, donations encouraged
Open: Feb.-Dec., 2nd Sun. and 2nd and 4th Thurs. of month noon-3; group tours weekdays by appointment

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