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Report the features of Octagon House, its years
The eight-sided house of Alpheus Winterborn
The house was built by Winterborn's father [65] at 20 Front Street, across from Monument Square, and described as having "domed roof and a silly little cupola on top that looked like a saltshaker. A lot of wooden doodads that looked like giant acorns hung from the eaves. The house was solidly built of brick, and it had a large backyard with swings and slides and a sandbox." The iron fence that ran round the entire yard had now rusted to pieces. Bushes now guarded the house from kids who cut back and forth across the yard on their way to and fro from school. |
Commentaries:
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- Aaron's rod
- Academy Boulevard (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- American Civil War
- Angel statue (Winterborn Treasure)
- Ark of the Covenant
- Atwater clock radio
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- Believe Only Half of What You Read (phrase)
- Bemidji, Minnesota
- Better Homes and Gardens (magazine)
- Bible (book)
- Bjornson, Mrs.
- Bump, Mrs.
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- Cadillac (automobile)
- Chess (game)
- Chicago Symphony (Chicago, Illinois)
- Chicago Tribune (newspaper)
- Coca-Cola (beverage)
- Coin, Liberty Head ten-dollar gold
- Cracker Jack
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- Darjeeling tea
- Division Street (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Dubuque, Iowa
- Duluth, Minnesota
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- East Reading Room (Hoosac Public Library)
- Eddy Street (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Eells, Emerson
- Eells, Myra
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- Ferncrest Memorial Hospital (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, Illinois)
- First National Bank (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- For He's a Jolly Good Fellow (song)
- Front Street (Hoosac, Minnesota)
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- Gegenfurtner, Charley
- Runs a clothing store and acted as auctioneer [52-6, 60-2].
- Grace, Miss
- Described as a "kind and helpful teller" at the First National Bank in Hoosac [34, 39].
- Grant Park (Chicago, Illinois)
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- Hannah Street (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Hibbing, Minnesota
- Holy Land
- Holy of Holies (temple room)
- Hoosac County, Minnesota
- Hoosac Daily Sentinel (newspaper) (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Hoosac Fire Station (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Hoosac Historical Society
- Hoosac Police Station (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Hoosac Public Library (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Hoosac, Minnesota
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- Immaculate Conception Academy (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Interesting Tombs of the XIX Dynasty (book)
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- Jerusalem, Israel
- Johansen, Miss
- Anthony's 8th grade teacher [69, 97].
- Josephus, Flavius (Jewish historian)
- Judea (Holy Land)
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- Lake Hoosac (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Lapsang Souchong tea
- Legree, Simon
- Levee Park (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Levi, Tribe of
- Loomis and Sons, Painters and Interior Decorators
- Hoosac business that was remodeling the Winterborn Mansion [82, 100-1].
- Loomis, Mr.
- Semi-friend of Howard Monday; saw Anthony snooping around Winterborn mansion [82-3].
- Louisa, Sister
- Luescher, Doc
- The Monday family doctor [44-6].
- Luxor, Egypt
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- Manfred, Frederick
- Mankato, Minnesota
- Manna
- Mar Saba (monastery in the Holy Land)
- Marshall Field's Department Store (Chicago, Illinois)
- Mayflower Van Lines
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Minnesota Avenue (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Mirror, Mirror (poem)
- Mississippi River
- Monday, Anthony
- Not a bookworm
- Offered job as library page
- Monday, Ginny
- Anthony's first encounter with [20-1]
- Monday, Howard
- Monday, Keith
- Monday's Cigar Store (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Monument Square Park (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Monuments of the Fayyum (book)
- Moses (Biblical figure)
- Moses's Rod
- Mother Goose
- Murphy, Dr.
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- National Guard
- New York Times (newspaper)
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- Odegard, Charley
- Odegard, Magnus
- Ohio kitchen matches
- Old Testament
- Oriental Institute (Chicago, Illinois)
- Oza (
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- The diary of Alpheus Winterborn says only the priests of the tribe of Levi were allowed to touch the Ark of the Covenant; a man named Oza was struck dead by God for touching the Ark when he shouldn't have [173].
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- Palestine
- Palladio, Andrea
- Philpotts, Hugo C.
- Pie in the sky : a plucky lads struggle for a millionaire’s gold (magazine article)
- Pine Street (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Pratt, Elvira (Mrs./Miss)
- Prince (dog)
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- Reader's Digest (publication)
- Return of Monte Cristo, The (film)
- Rhine River
- Rogers Brothers, 1847
- Rolling Stone, Minnesota
- Rusk, Mr.
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- Sargon, King
- Sculthorp, Briggs
- Searle, Simon
- Seventeen (magazine)
- Sinai, Mount
- Smith Brothers cough drops
- Solomon, King
- Solomon's Temple (Jerusalem)
- Speece, Mrs. (Eagle Eye)
- St. Cloud, Minnesota
- Swett, Earl (Officer)
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- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Ten Commandments
- Times of London (newspaper)
- Tower Room (Hoosac Public Library)
- Treasure Island (film)
- Treasure of Monte Cristo, The (film)
- Tutankhamun
- Twain, Mark
- Tweedy, Harold
- Twitt, Anthony
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- University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
- University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
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- Walnut Street (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- West Reading Room (Hoosac Public Library)
- Wigmore Street (London, England)
- Winterborn House (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Winterborn Reading Room (Hoosac Public Library)
- Winterborn Silverware Company (Hoosac, Minnesota)
- Winterborn, Alpheus T.
- Winterborn, Jr. Alpheus
- Winterborn's Account of His Archeological Career (book)
- Winterborn's Sister, Alpheus
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- X-ray ()
- Anthony breaks the big bone of his upper arm; the later x-rays his arm, revealing that the arm bone had separated and was lying side by side [92, 97].
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The Books
The Authors
The Series
Adaptations
Annotations
Book Collecting
Book collecting can be an exciting, if not expensive, hobby. Over the years, fans of John Bellairs have discussed the fine art of book finding and buying, specifically those first-edition hardcovers with illustrations by the late Edward Gorey.
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