Look inside the Armour-Stiner Octagon House, an ornate 19th-century mansion in New York, decorated for the holidays

Look inside the Armour-Stiner Octagon House, an ornate 19th-century mansion in New York, decorated for the holidays

The Armour-Stiner Octagon house in winterCourtesy of The Lombardi FamilyThe Armour-Stiner Octagon House is a fairytale mansion just 18 miles north of Manhattan.Frozen in time to the early 1870s, it was designed as a summer and weekend escape from New York.The residence, once owned by a coffee merchant who rivaled Starbucks, can be privately toured.In the mid-19th century, the concept of octagon houses was all the rage among fashionable Americans…