Armour-Stiner House

The Armour - Stiner House, also known as the Carmer Octagon House known, is a Victorian-style house on the West Clinton Avenue 45 in Irvington in Westchester County, New York. It is considered the world's only octagonal house with a dome. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.

Construction of the house was 1859-1860 on behalf of the financier Paul J. Armour and is based on ideas of Orson Fowler. The actual architect of the house is unknown. The dome was added in the expansion of the house by the Teeimporteuer Joseph Stiner 1872-1876. The Armour - Stiner House is one of the most lavish Oktagonhäuser that time.

Later it was the residence of the historian Carl Carmer, according to his testimony to be haunted here. In 1976 the house was owned briefly by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which the demolition was prevented. This then sold it to the architect Joseph Pell Lombardi, who specializes in the reconstruction of historical buildings and then reconstructed the house, the interior, the grounds and outbuildings.

The house is a private residence today. It is located on the south side of West Clinton Avenue on the crest of a hill that overlooks the Hudson River to the west. The building is located approximately 500 meters from the river bank and is about 40 m higher, in line with the ideas of Fowler. The Croton Aqueduct, another National Historic Landmark, is adjacent to the east.

An exterior shot of the house was used in the film Across the Universe.