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An Octagon for the Curriers

Melanie Meyers and Frank Angelo 		In the early 1840s, an enterprising New Englander, Frank P. Currier, moved to frontier Michigan, captivated by tales of its wilderness. It was there, in the village of Almont, fifty miles north of Detroit, that he established himself as a creative and visionary entrepreneur and eventually built his unique octagon home.
Currier's octagon reflected the free-
thinking spirit Currier expressed in his numerous business pursuits. The house remained in the Currier family until 1960. In 1985, Fredrick P. Currier IV, great grandson of the man who built it, purchased the house and has since had it restored.
An Octagon for the Curriers recounts the history of the Curriers of Almont, hard-working individuals with the character and integrity to become leaders in their community. Their house still stands, the only octagon in Almont, as a testament to their life and times and to the town in which they lived.		  
 
Published by Frederick P. Currier,
Post Publishing
Distributed by Wayne State University Press

$34.95l paper / ISBN 0-8143-2643-9

112 pages / 9.5 x 11
48 illustrations and maps

1995