California’s Octagon House in Historic Home Tour

NSCDA-CA property and headquarters, the Octagon House, was recently highlighted as a must-visit on a published tour of historic home sin the Bay Area. Congrats!

This Octagon House has an interesting history that almost ended in 1952, when its owner, an electricity company, sought to demolish it in order to use the land for another purpose. However, thanks to the efforts of the California Society of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, the house was moved across the street and later renovated to be a museum of the Society’s collection of Colonial and Federal era decorative arts.

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