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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 house on the way to Plum Island. The Pink House is an uninhabited historic house and popular photography and painting subject located at 60 Plum Island Turnpike, Newbury, Massachusetts, United States. [3] [4] The house was built in 1925 and was privately owned until it was sold to Parker River National Wildlife Refuge for $375,000 in 2011.
As far as we know, it is the narrowest house in Boston." [2] According to local legend, it was built as a spite house. The house spans 10.4 feet (3.16 m) at Hull Street, its widest point. The house tapers to 9.25 feet (2.82 m) at the back.
Across Hull street from the Copp's Hill Burying Ground is an extremely narrow four-story spite house built shortly after the Civil War. Only 10.4 feet (3.2 m) wide at its widest point, the house is reported by the Boston Globe as having the "uncontested distinction of being the narrowest house in Boston."
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.
In the quiet, sandy streets near Jacksonville Beach, a towering 10-foot-wide house stands as a bold middle finger to the neighborhood. Built on a sliver of land out of pure spite, this eyebrow ...
The two-story, 10-foot-wide house certainly looks interesting, but necessity is indeed the mother of i Florida Man Builds 10-Foot-Wide Tiny Home To Spite Neighbors, Then Lists It For $600,000 Skip ...
Opposition House is an historic double house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The two story hip-roofed wood-frame house was built in 1807 by Judge Francis Dana, who was seeking to prevent the laying of Harvard Street across his estate, making it a kind of spite house. Dana's efforts were unsuccessful; the road was routed around this house, which he ...