For sale: Odd and fantastic San Francisco octagonal home designed by phrenologist

The magnificent Feusier Octagon House in San Francisco is for sale for $8.6 million. Its curious shape was informed by a popular book of the 1850s, 'A Home for All; Or, The Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building' by Orson Squire Fowler, a phrenologist who according to SFGATE, 'argued that eight-sided homes were better for one's well-being, in part because it meant every room in the house would get sunlight at one point during the day.' — Read the rest