Spite house

A spite house is a building constructed or substantially modified to

irritate neighbors or any party with land stakes. Because long-term
occupation is not the primary purpose of these houses, they frequently
sport strange and impractical structures.

Spite houses may create obstructions, such as blocking out light or

blocking access to neighboring buildings, or can be flagrant symbols
of defiance.[1][2] Although homeowners generally have no right to
views, light, or air, neighbors can sue for a negative easement. In
instances regarding a spite build, courts are far more likely to side
with the neighboring parties which may have been affected by that
The Skinny House in Boston,
build.[3] For example, the Coty v. Ramsey Associates, Inc. (https://cas
Massachusetts was reputedly built
etext.com/case/coty-v-ramsey-assoc-inc) case of 1988 ruled that the
by a man who inherited only a small
defendant's spite farm constituted a nuisance, granting the neighboring
patch of land, to spite his neighbor
landowner a negative easement.[3] by blocking his view

Spite houses, as well as spite farms, are considerably rarer than spite
fences.[1] This is partially attributable to the fact that modern building
codes often prevent the construction of houses likely to impinge on neighbors' views or privacy, but mostly
because fence construction is far cheaper, quicker, and easier than home construction.[4] There are also similar
structures known as spite walls or blinder walls.

Contents
Examples
In fiction
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Examples
In 1716, Thomas Wood, a sailmaker, built a house in Marblehead, Massachusetts, that
subsequently became known as the Old Spite House. One possibility is that it was inhabited by
two brothers who occupied different sections, would not speak to each other, and refused to sell
to the other.[5] Another explanation is that the ten foot (3 meter) wide house, just tall enough to
block the view of two other houses on Orne Street, was built because its owner was upset
about his tiny share of his father's estate and therefore decided to spoil his older brothers'
view.[6] The Old Spite House is still standing and occupied.[6]
In 1806, Thomas McCobb, heir to his father's land and
shipbuilding business, returned home to Phippsburg,
Maine, from sea to discover that his stepbrother Mark had
inherited the family "Mansion in the Wilderness".[7] Upset
about his loss, McCobb built a house directly across from
the McCobb mansion to spite his stepbrother.[7] The
National Park Service's Historic American Buildings
Survey photographed and documented the 1925 move of
the McCobb Spite House by barge from Phippsburg to The Old Spite House of Marblehead,
Deadman's Point in Rockport, Maine.[8][9][10] Massachusetts in 1912

In 1814, Dr. John Tyler, an eminent ophthalmologist and

one of the first American-born physicians to perform a
cataract operation, owned a parcel of land near the
courthouse square in Frederick, Maryland.[11] The city
made plans to extend Record Street south through Tyler's
land to meet West Patrick Street.[11] In fighting the city,
Tyler discovered a local law that prevented the building of
a road if work was in progress on a substantial building in
the path of a proposed road.[11] To spite the city, Tyler
immediately had workmen pour a building foundation,
which was discovered by the road crews the next The McCobb Spite House at
morning.[11][12] Deadman's Point in July 1960.

In 1830, John Hollensbury's home in Alexandria, Virginia,

was one of two houses that directly bordered an alley that
attracted an annoying amount of horse-drawn wagon traffic
and loiterers.[13] To prevent people from using the
alleyway, Hollensbury constructed a 7-foot (2.1 m) wide,
25-foot (7.6 m) deep, 325-square-foot (30.2 m2), two-story
home using the existing brick walls of the adjacent homes
for the sides of the new house.[13] The brick walls of the
Hollensbury Spite House living room have gouges from
wagon-wheel hubs, and the house is still standing and
occupied.[13] The Tyler Spite House in Frederick,
Maryland. It is located at the
The Skinny House in Boston is considered a spite house.
southern terminus of Record Street
One story of its creation tells that in 1874, two brothers in
the North End of Boston, Massachusetts, got into a
dispute.[14][15] Each had previously inherited land from
their deceased father.[14] While the second brother was away serving in the military, the first
brother built a large home, leaving the soldier only a shred of property that the first brother felt
certain was too tiny to build on.[14] When the soldier returned, he found his inheritance depleted
and built a wooden house at 44 Hull St. to spite his brother by blocking the sunlight and ruining
his view.[14] The outside of the house spans 10.4 feet (3.2 m) and tapers to 9.25 feet (2.82 m) in
the rear.[14]

In 1880, Adam Schilling owned a tract of 80 acres (32 ha) adjoining the town of Hiawatha,
Kansas.[16] Schilling sold three-quarters of an acre of this land, on which a house eventually
was built and became owned by James Falloon.[16] Together, the 80 acres (320,000 m2) were
well-suited to add to the town of Hiawatha, but Falloon refused to sell his three-quarters of an
acre at the low price Schilling offered.[16] To spite his neighbor, Schilling then built a cheap
tenement house on his own property 13 feet (4.0 m) from Falloon's with the "idea of rendering
Falloon's home obnoxious and unendurable to Falloon and family" by renting to people
Falloon might find objectionable.[16]

The Richardson Spite House in New York City at

Lexington Avenue and 82nd Street was built in 1882[17]
and demolished in 1915. It was four stories tall, 104 feet
(31.7 m) wide, and only five feet (1.5 m) deep. Joseph
Richardson, the owner of the plot, built it after the owner of
an adjacent plot, Hyman Sarner, unsuccessfully tried to
purchase the land. Sarner considered the plot useless by
itself and offered only $1000; Richardson demanded
$5000. After the deal fell through, Richardson had an
apartment building constructed on his land. It was a
functional (albeit impractical) apartment building with eight
suites, each consisting of three rooms and a bath.[18] The Richardson Spite House in 1895

In the early 1890s, in the Astor family, William Waldorf

Astor's mansion was next door to that of his aunt, Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, on the
block later occupied by the Empire State Building. He and his aunt did not get along well, and
William replaced his mansion with a hotel, the original Waldorf Hotel in 1893. The building not
only towered over his aunt's home, but it also had no windows at all on the side facing the
aunt's mansion.[19]
At some point before 1898, a home was erected in Salem, Massachusetts, to "cut off the view of
a neighbor".[20] After the owner died, his heirs agreed in 1898 to have the Salem Spite House
torn down to avoid a "vexatious lawsuit with the obnoxious neighbor".[20]

In the 19th century, a Collinsville, Connecticut, butcher feuded with his neighbor.[21] To spite his
neighbor, the butcher built between their adjoining houses a narrow, two-story structure with
windows covered by Venetian blinds.[21] The wooden building located between 23 and 25
River St. was the width of a standard stairway and allowed the butcher to block the sun to the
neighbor's home and block the neighbor's view of the butcher's property at will.[21][22] The
butcher's son got along with the family next door and eventually tore down the Collinsville Spite
House.[21]
Also in the 19th century, a Freeport, New York, developer
who opposed all of Freeport being laid out in a grid, put up
a Victorian house virtually overnight on a triangular plot at
the corner of Lena Avenue and Wilson Place to spite the
grid designers.[23][24] The Freeport Spite House is still
standing and occupied.[23]
At the turn of the 20th century, the city of Alameda,
California, took a large portion of Charles Froling's land to
build a street. Froling had planned to build his dream Developer John Randall's unusual
house on the plot of land he received through "Freeport Spite House" or "Miracle
inheritance.[25] To spite the city and an unsympathetic House" blocked a rival developer's
neighbor, Froling built a house 10 feet (3.0 m) deep, 54 feet plan for the route of Freeport, New
(16 m) long and 20 feet (6.1 m) high on the tiny strip of land York's Lena Avenue.
left to him.[25] The Alameda Spite House is still standing
and occupied.[25] He cantilevered the front-facing second
story to maximize floor space while avoiding encroachment on zoning setbacks.
In 1904, the family of a deceased Joseph Edleston owned a plot of land next to the churchyard
of St. Mary's in Gainford, England.[26] The children asked to erect a monument in the
churchyard in memory of Joseph's 41-year tenure at the church.[26] The church refused
permission, asserting that the churchyard was full but that the family could donate their land to
the church and then build a monument on part of it.[26]
Feeling slighted, the family immediately set about building
themselves a house on their land with a 40-foot (12 m)
column erected next to the churchyard so it towered over
the trees.[26] The Edleston Spite House is still standing
and occupied, and has MCMIV (1904) over the front
door.[26]

In 1908, Francis O'Reilly owned an investment parcel of

land in West Cambridge, Massachusetts, and approached The Alameda Spite House, July 2008
his abutting land neighbor to sell the land for a gain.[27]
After the neighbor refused to buy the land, O'Reilly built a
308-square-foot (28.6 m2) building, measuring 37 feet
(11 m) long and only 8 feet (2.4 m) wide to spite the
neighbor.[27] The O'Reilly Spite House is still standing[27]
and is occupied by an interior decorating firm as of mid-
2009.[28]

The Sam Kee Building, built in 1913 in Vancouver, British

Columbia, is a spite house. The city widened the street and
took a large part of Mr. Kee's land who then built a 4-foot-
11-inch (1.50 m) wide building on the remaining very small O'Reilly Spite House, West
parcel of land. Cambridge, MA, June 2009

Before 1914, the Austro-Hungarians who ruled Sarajevo in

Bosnia and Herzegovina wanted land in the Sarajevo Old
Town district to build a city hall and library.[29] The land had a home on it and, despite offering
the owner money, he refused and continued to refuse even when told that he had to move.[29]
When the officials threatened him, he moved the house and rebuilt it, piece by piece, on the
other side of the Miljacka river, as a way of spiting the officials.[29] The Sarajevo Spite House
operates today as a restaurant called Inat Kuća (which means "Spite House").[29]
In 1922, The Pink House was built in Newbury,
Massachusetts. According to local legend, as per the terms
of a divorce settlement, a man was required to build an
exact replica of his house for his now ex-wife, but since the
wife had failed to specify where the house be built, he built
in the Great Marsh on the edge of town with saltwater
plumbing.[30][31]
In 1925, according to one common story, a Montlake,
Seattle, Washington neighbor made an insultingly low offer
for a tiny slice of adjoining land.[32] Out of spite for the low Alley view: the thin end of the
offer, the builder built an 860-square-foot (80 m2) house Montlake Spite House (left) and the
that blocked the neighbors' open space.[32] However, there house it blocks from 24th.
are other stories about how the house came to be, making
its origins murky.[33] The house is 55 inches (1.4 m) wide at
the south end, and 15 feet (4.6 m) wide at the north end.[32][33] The Montlake Spite House is
still standing and occupied.[32][33]

In 1934, Corina Kavanagh, of Irish descent, commissioned the building of a skyscraper in

Buenos Aires, the iconic Kavanagh building, at the time the highest skyscraper in Latin
America. Local legend holds that Corina Kavanagh sought to arrange a marriage between one
of her daughters and the son of the Anchorena family, one of the wealthiest and traditionalist
aristocratic families of the country; the Anchorenas, however, refused. Out of revenge, she had
 her high-rise building built between the Anchorena's palace and the church the family had
erected on the opposing side of the adjoining square.[34]

In the 1950s, two Virginia City, Nevada neighbors got into a dispute.[35] When one of the men
built a new house, the other bought the lot next to it and built a house less than 12 inches
(30 cm) from his neighbor's house in spite to deprive the neighbor of both view and breeze.[35]
The Virginia City Spite House is still standing and occupied.[35]

In 1954, a thin wedge-shaped building was erected by architects Salah and Fawzi Itani on a
120 sq m plot in Beirut, Lebanon at the request a man wanting to spoil the sea view of his
brother after they failed to agree to jointly develop their neighboring plots. The street facade
appears to be an ordinary apartment building, but is 60 cm at the narrowest and four meters at
the widest. It is known as Al Ba'sa (The Grudge) and formerly as The Queen Mary due to its
resemblance to a ship.[36]
Film producer George Lucas had wanted to construct a
movie studio on land that he owned in Marin County,
California. After facing years of opposition, Lucas
abandoned the project in 2012. Instead, he decided to
construct a low-income housing development. While some
sources have speculated that the low-income housing
proposal was to spite the high-income residents in the
wealthy county,[37] Lucas himself rejected that
characterization.[38]
The Equality House in Topeka,
The Westboro Baptist Church, located in Topeka, Kansas, Kansas in 2016.
is a hate group known for its anti-LGBT picketing. The
humanitarian charity Planting Peace purchased a house
across the street from the church and, in 2013, had it painted to match the colors of the rainbow
pride flag.[39] It was named the 'Equality House' and has received worldwide attention and
media coverage.[39] In 2016, Planting Peace acquired the house next door to the Equality
House and painted it the colors of the transgender pride flag.[40] The houses provide shelter to
volunteers[39] and a community garden.[41]

In fiction
In 1839 or 1840, Edgar Allan Poe, in his story "The Business Man", wrote the following
passage in the voice of Peter Proffit, a man who imagines himself a legitimate businessman
although the reader realizes that he is a con man. Proffit's attempted scam in this passage is to
build a spite house and extort his neighbors to pay him to tear it down. (He calls this line of
business 'the Eye-Sore trade'.)

Whenever a rich old hunks, or prodigal heir, or bankrupt corporation, gets into the notion of
putting up a palace, there is no such thing in the world as stopping either of them, and this every
intelligent person knows. The fact in question is indeed the basis of the Eye-Sore trade. As soon,
therefore, as a building project is fairly afoot by one of these parties, we merchants secure a nice
corner of the lot in contemplation, or a prime little situation just adjoining or tight in front. This
done, we wait until the palace is half-way up, and then we pay some tasty architect to run us up
an ornamental mud hovel, right against it; or a Down-East or Dutch Pagoda, or a pig-sty, or an
ingenious little bit of fancy work, either Esquimau, Kickapoo, or Hottentot. Of course, we can't
afford to take these structures down under a bonus of five hundred per cent upon the prime cost of
our lot and plaster. Can we? I ask the question. I ask it of business men. It would be irrational to
suppose that we can.
See also
Cutting off the nose to spite the face Smallest House in Great Britain
Eyesore Spite (sentiment)
Holdout (real estate) Spite fence
Sam Kee Building

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Further reading
McGovern, Ann. Gerberg, Mort, February 1980, Mr. Skinner's Skinny House Publisher:
Atheneum. ISBN 0-02-765730-2
Alpern, Andrew; Durst, Seymour (1997). New York's Architectural Holdouts. Dover
Publications. ISBN 978-0486294254.

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