The Octagon House
The Octagon House, also known as the Colonel John Tayloe III House, is a house located at 1799 New York Avenue, Northwest in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was built in 1799 for John Tayloe III, the wealthiest planter in the country, at the behest of his new family member Georg
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Reported. Visitors and staff have reported apparitions at The Octagon House. Accounts like these have circulated for years; The Haunted Guide records them as reports, not as established fact. The Times carried a ghost story about The Octagon House in 1897. The Haunted Guide records the newspaper’s account, not the haunting: nothing in it was ever established as fact.
Sources: Wikipedia: The Octagon House, Wikidata Q7754672, NRHP #66000863, National Register of Historic Places (NPS).
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