Bradley Octagon House
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The Bradley Octagon House, also called the Parker Octagon House or the James Parker Octagon House, is an historic 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...

 located at 5783 Summer Street in Niagara Falls, Ontario
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Niagara Falls is a Canadian city on the Niagara River in the Golden Horseshoe region of Southern Ontario. The municipality was incorporated on June 12, 1903...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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It was built in 1906 by James Bradley, a carpenter, and it remained in his family until sold by his granddaughter Joyce Bradley in 1989. It is two storey with an octagonal cupola
Cupola
In architecture, a cupola is a small, most-often dome-like, structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome....

 centered on its roof and a one storey porch on the street side. Its original wooden siding was covered first by insulbrick and then by the present vinyl siding
Vinyl siding
Vinyl siding is plastic exterior cladding for a house, used for decoration and weatherproofing, as an alternative to traditional wood siding or other materials such as aluminum or fiber cement siding. It is an engineered product, manufactured primarily from polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, resin, giving...

. It is listed as a heritage property by the city of Niagara Falls although it has not been officially designated as such.
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