According to legend, a man named Newton Rummonds acquired a tiny plot in Long Beach, Calif. to settle a $100 debt. After neighbors bet that the plot was too small to be functional, he built the 10-foot-wide home to prove them wrong.
According to local lore, the spite tower in Adamsville was built to block the line of sight of a town local. It was constructed around 1905 and still stands.
The 7-foot-wide spite house in Alexandria, Va. was built in 1830 as a way for the owner of one of the adjacent houses “to keep horse-drawn wagons and loiterers out of his alley,” according to The New York Times. The house is an “enclosed alley,” formed from the brick walls of the homes on either side.
This spite house in Virginia City, Nev. came about after two neighbors got into a fight. After one man built a home, the other bought the lot next to his and built a home less than 12 inches away. The home sold in 2014 for $245,000.
China has become known for its “nail houses” — the homes left behind when owners refuse to move due to developers. In one famous case in 2007, a family in Chongqing refused to vacate a home to make way for the construction of a shopping mall. The owners eventually settled with the developers.
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