As designer of Poplar Forest, one of the first octagonal houses in America, Thomas Jefferson�probably would have liked Susan Cooper?s house in McLean.
Seen from the roadway, Cooper?s eight-sided house looks farm-friendly, or maybe nautical, like the lighthouse in St. Michaels, Md. ? crisp white brick against the surrounding lawn, with a red standing-seam metal roof and a porch that encircles the house at ground level. A second octagonal level sits atop the first, set a few feet back from the edge of the roof below. Popping up in the middle of this confection is a windowed belvedere topped by a cupola, again echoing the eight-sided shape. An oversize glass-topped breezeway attaches the left side of the house to a two-car garage.
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