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The Spite House of 1882

39 points by wallflower 8y ago

RodgerTheGreat 8y ago
It seems that while New York changes over the years, New Yorkers do not.
SeanLuke 8y ago
The current narrowest house in the United States is also a spite house. It's a small house in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia, a historic suburb of the DC metro area. It fills the carriageway between two houses and was built to keep people's wagons out of that carriageway. It predates the NY house by 50 years. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/travel/escapes/29away.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/travel/escapes/29away.htm... https://hookedonhouses.net/2008/03/03/the-spite-house-in-alexandria-virginia/ https://hookedonhouses.net/2008/03/03/the-spite-house-in-ale... In fact, there are four such houses in Old Town, Alexandria, including one probably built in the 1700s. https://www.oldtownhome.com/2018/2/23/Which-of-Old-Town-Alexandrias-Spite-Houses-is-Narrowest-Its-a-Game-of-Inches/?forgotpassword=1 https://www.oldtownhome.com/2018/2/23/Which-of-Old-Town-Alex...
mjd 8y ago
Related article with more pictures, including floor plans: https://blog.plover.com/tech/spite-house.html https://blog.plover.com/tech/spite-house.html
ggm 8y ago
Rich bastards buy house with potential view blocked by trees in Sydney, poison trees: Council erects large sign, entirely blocking view of said rich bastards...
jihadjihad 8y ago
A similar discussion occurred here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17371521 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17371521
qualitative 8y ago
the big clcvcn-slory apartment house Machine learning, folks!
- InitialLastName 8y ago
  One would think it wouldn't be too difficult to run spell-check + commonly-misinterpreted characters fuzzer on OCR material.
  - qualitative 8y ago
    Yeah, I don't know why, but I really enjoy trivial mechanical errors like that. It's somehow so wrong, but so right.
bryananderson 8y ago
There is another wonderful spite house in Sarajevo, Bosnia. In the late 1800s, the Austro-Hungarian authorities cleared land in the center of town for a huge new city hall, but one man refused to sell. After years, he finally sold for an exorbitant sum and the brick-by-brick rebuilding of his home across the River Miljacka. He would sit on the bridge and lazily watch the workmen carrying his home across the river. Today it’s a traditional Bosnian restaurant called Inat Kuća (House of Spite). https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sarajevo-spite-house https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sarajevo-spite-house

39 points by wallflower 8y ago

It seems that while New York changes over the years, New Yorkers do not.

The current narrowest house in the United States is also a spite house. It's a small house in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia, a historic suburb of the DC metro area. It fills the carriageway between two houses and was built to keep people's wagons out of that carriageway. It predates the NY house by 50 years. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/travel/escapes/29away.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/travel/escapes/29away.htm... https://hookedonhouses.net/2008/03/03/the-spite-house-in-alexandria-virginia/ https://hookedonhouses.net/2008/03/03/the-spite-house-in-ale... In fact, there are four such houses in Old Town, Alexandria, including one probably built in the 1700s. https://www.oldtownhome.com/2018/2/23/Which-of-Old-Town-Alexandrias-Spite-Houses-is-Narrowest-Its-a-Game-of-Inches/?forgotpassword=1 https://www.oldtownhome.com/2018/2/23/Which-of-Old-Town-Alex...

mjd 8y ago

Related article with more pictures, including floor plans: https://blog.plover.com/tech/spite-house.html https://blog.plover.com/tech/spite-house.html

ggm 8y ago

Rich bastards buy house with potential view blocked by trees in Sydney, poison trees: Council erects large sign, entirely blocking view of said rich bastards...

jihadjihad 8y ago

A similar discussion occurred here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17371521 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17371521

qualitative 8y ago

the big clcvcn-slory apartment house Machine learning, folks!

InitialLastName 8y ago
One would think it wouldn't be too difficult to run spell-check + commonly-misinterpreted characters fuzzer on OCR material.
- qualitative 8y ago
  Yeah, I don't know why, but I really enjoy trivial mechanical errors like that. It's somehow so wrong, but so right.

bryananderson 8y ago

There is another wonderful spite house in Sarajevo, Bosnia. In the late 1800s, the Austro-Hungarian authorities cleared land in the center of town for a huge new city hall, but one man refused to sell. After years, he finally sold for an exorbitant sum and the brick-by-brick rebuilding of his home across the River Miljacka. He would sit on the bridge and lazily watch the workmen carrying his home across the river. Today it’s a traditional Bosnian restaurant called Inat Kuća (House of Spite). https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sarajevo-spite-house https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sarajevo-spite-house