The Octagon House: Present and Future!



The Octagon House
the Welcome Center
for new project.

The Octagon House has recently undergone another renovation... maybe innovation is a better word. The site around it is being developed as a full service Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC). A special structure was needed to serve as a welcome center and meeting area for future residents. Because of its historical and local value the Octagon House was the perfect choice! The Octagon House has been in service since 1856 and will continue serving for generations to come.

Octagon House to become part of retirement community

September 06, 2010

JANNETTE PIPPIN

CEDAR POINT — The historic Octagon House in Cedar Point is a blend of old and new.

Extensive renovations and restoration work over the past several years have given the 1850s house new life; and while the structure still stands true to its past, its latest role is home base for a continuing care retirement community planned for the property.

Shell Pointe is being developed on the Jones Masonic Campus, and the Octagon House is busy with activity as the first phase of construction nears and potential residents are welcomed through its doors to review the plans.



Bryan Lassiter, business manager
for the Shell Pointe project



The retirement community will offer a mix of independent living with options for assisted living, skilled nursing and other healthcare services for those who may need them. And from its setting along the White Oak River, the goal is a retirement community where quality living meets scenic beauty.

Bryan Lassiter, business manager for the Shell Pointe project, said it’s a development unique to the area.

“Our goal is to provide this wonderful and needed service for the entire area, and we want to be able to do it with very nice accommodations and first-rate medical care for those who need it,” he said.

The Octagon House, now a welcome center and office for the development, will also serve as a meeting place for residents. From its front porch, the White Oak River is just a glance away, and the 60-acre campus spreads out around it with waterfront and wooded area all around.

As Shell Pointe rises from the site, every effort will be made to incorporate the natural beauty into the project, with as much green space preserved as possible, Lassiter said.

“Jones Masonic Campus is a nonprofit corporation formed to receive and administer a gift from John and Lois Jones, who donated the 60 acres here in Carteret County along the White Oak River,” Lassiter said. “It’s beautiful property specifically to be used for a retirement community, camp for children and Mason Retreat Center. Those were the uses they wanted to see on the property, and we have worked very diligently to identify ways to have all of those uses on the property.”

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