The Clarence Darrow Octagon House is an historic octagonal house located at 8405 Main Street in Kinsman, Ohio. Built circa 1854, it was the boyhood home of famous lawyer and Kinsman native Clarence Darrow, 1857-1938, whose father bought it in 1864. Its "exterior walls are constructed of chestnut beams between layers of concrete."
On September 10, 1971, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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