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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.
The Spite House is the couple's favorite property, with Colleen saying "I deal with commercial spaces, and this house is so different. I love the idea of it — that something like this can exist. It makes the world a little more magical." [3] The house is most often used for friends or clients of the couple as a type of bed and breakfast. The ...
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.
Virginia: The Hollensbury Spite House. Alexandria’s historic Old Town is home to plenty of curiosities, including this 7-foot-wide home built back in 1830. The owner of an adjacent home was ...
The Spite House, also known as the Thomas McCobb House, is a historic house at Deadman's Point in Rockport, Maine. Built in 1806 in Phippsburg, it is a high quality example of Federal period architecture. It was built by Thomas McCobb as a deliberately elaborate building to exceed in quality the fine house in which he had grown up, which he had ...
A spite wall in Lancashire, England, built in 1880 by the owner of the land on the left, in reaction to the unwanted construction of the house on the right [1]. In property law, a spite fence is an overly tall fence or a row of trees, bushes, or hedges, constructed or planted between adjacent lots by a property owner (with no legitimate purpose), who is annoyed with or wishes to annoy a ...
Nail house is a calque of a Chinese neologism "dīngzihù" (literally, "nail household or householder") that refers to either a person who refuses to vacate their home to make way for development, or the home itself. The Chinese term, coined by developers, comes from the fact that these houses stick out like a nail that can be neither extracted ...
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