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The Skinny House in Boston, Massachusetts, was reputedly built by a man who inherited only a small patch of land, to spite his neighbor by blocking his view.. A spite house is a building constructed or substantially modified to irritate neighbors or any party with land stakes.
Out of spite for the low offer, the builder built an 860-square-foot (80 m 2) house at 2022 24th Avenue E. that blocked the neighbors' open space. The house is 55 inches (1.4 m) wide at the south end and 15 feet (4.6 m) wide at the north end. The Montlake Spite House still is standing and occupied. [6]
Edith Macefield (August 21, 1921 – June 15, 2008) was a real estate holdout who received worldwide attention in 2006 when she turned down an offer of $1 million to sell her house to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington (originally reported as a package worth $750,000). [1]
Another nail house became notable after it ended up in the middle of a new road in Wenling, Zhejiang Province. The elderly couple had refused to sell the property for the price offered by the government since 2001. [26] Eventually a major two-lane road to a new train station was constructed around the house.
There are 315 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. 222 of these listings are located in the city of Seattle, and are listed separately; the remaining 93 properties and districts are listed here. Another property in the county outside of Seattle was once listed on the National Register but has been removed.
This category is for spite houses, buildings that are constructed or substantially modified in order to irritate neighbors or any party with land stakes. Pages in category "Spite houses" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
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Location of Seattle in King County and Washington. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Seattle, Washington. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates ...