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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, 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 ...
The Hollensbury Spite House is a spite house located at 523 Queen Street in Alexandria, Virginia. The narrow building measures 7-feet 6-inches (2.3 m) wide and is often called the skinniest house in the United States. The house has drawn international attention, being covered by numerous news outlets, and was once featured on The Oprah Winfrey ...
Boston has the infamous spite house or "skinny house," built in 1874, but Westminster's spite wall was built more than two decades earlier, making it one of the oldest neighbor quarrels recorded ...
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 ...
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.
Robert E. Lee's houses: His boyhood home and the Lee-Fendall House. The Athenaeum is a historic building that is now an art gallery and event space. Gadsby's Tavern, Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Shop, Hollensbury Spite House, Shiloh Baptish Church; Saint Mary's Basilica (the first Catholic church in Virginia) Athenaeum; Lyceum; Vowell-Smith House
Location of Knox County in Maine. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Knox County, Maine.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Knox County, Maine, United States.