In 1855, an Ohio man built an eight-sided house with pizza-slice rooms; nearly 150 years later, residents moved the entire structure to save it from demolition

In the small city of Circleville, Ohio, a farmer named George W. Gregg broke ground in 1855 on a house unlike anything most of his neighbours had ever lived in. Rather than the traditional rectangular farmhouse common to the era, Gregg built an eight-sided structure with rooms radiating from a central staircase like slices of a pie. In 2004, 149 years after construction began, the same building was lifted from its foundation and hauled half a mile down the road, an extraordinary intervention that saved it from demolition.

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