The Octagon House, in Danbury

Danbury, Connecticut

Danbury is a city in northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It had population at the 2010 census of 80,893. Danbury is the fourth largest city in Fairfield County and is the seventh largest city in Connecticut....

, Connecticut, United States, is located on Spring Street. It is considered the best octagon house

Octagon house

Octagon houses were a unique house style briefly popular in the 1850s in the United States and Canada. They are characterised by an octagonal plan, and often feature a flat roof and a veranda all round...

 of the 12 that survive in Connecticut. In 1973 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 to avert its demolition in urban renewal

Urban renewal

Urban renewal is a program of land redevelopment in areas of moderate to high density urban land use. Renewal has had both successes and failures. Its modern incarnation began in the late 19th century in developed nations and experienced an intense phase in the late 1940s – under the rubric of...

.

It is west of downtown Danbury

Main Street Historic District (Danbury, Connecticut)

The Main Street Historic District in Danbury, Connecticut, United States, is the oldest section of that city, at its geographical center. It has long been the city's commercial core and downtown...

 in a residential area approximately midway along Spring between Beaver and New streets. The house itself is set back further from the street than its neighbors.