A spite house is a building constructed or substantially modified to irritate neighbors or any party with land stakes. Because long-term occupation is...
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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)...
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Look up spite, spitefulness, or in spite of in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Spite may refer to: Spite (sentiment), to intentionally annoy, hurt, or...
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In property law, a spite fence is an overly tall fence or a row of trees, bushes, or hedges, constructed or planted between adjacent lots by a property...
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nose to spite the face The Dog in the Manger Hostility Internet troll Resentment Sadism Spite (game theory) Schadenfreude Spite fence Spite house Tall poppy...
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as we know, it is the narrowest house in Boston." According to local legend, it was built as a spite house. The house spans 10.4 feet (3.16 m) at Hull...
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plumbing. For this reason, the building is often listed as an example of a spite house. The refuge, which had originally planned on using the property for seasonal...
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Look up cut off one's nose to spite one's face in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. "Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face" is an expression used...
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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...
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John Tyler (doctor) (section Spite House)
Jefferson. Tyler is also known for the spite house he built in Frederick on West Church Street, next door to his own house, to prevent the extension of Record...
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Spite Marriage is a 1929 American silent comedy film co-directed by Buster Keaton and Edward Sedgwick and starring Keaton and Dorothy Sebastian. It is...
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block Home House Gated community Intentional community List of house styles Outbuilding Planned unit development Real estate Spite house, which may or...
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The Equality House is a rainbow-colored house in Topeka, Kansas that is situated on the corner of 12th and Orleans Street, across from Westboro Baptist...
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matter of opinion such as controversial modern architecture (see also spite house), transmission towers or wind turbines. Natural eyesores include feces...
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Sam Kee Building (category Spite houses)
as the "world's thinnest building". The building was constructed as a spite house in 1913, in defiance of Vancouver City Council's decision to expropriate...
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moved the house and rebuilt it, piece by piece, on the other side of the Miljacka river, as a way of spiting the officials. The Sarajevo spite house operates...
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Daylighting Protected view Air rights Spite fence Spite house Kerr, Robert (1865). "On ancient lights: and the evidence ... -...
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artists. 205 King Street, a spite house, dates to the late 18th century or early 19th. It is the oldest of Old Town's spite houses. On reaching the Washington...
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kind of spite house. Dana's efforts were unsuccessful; the road was routed around this house, which he had sited along the intended route. The house was moved...
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Holdout (real estate) (redirect from Nail house)
of a San Francisco nail house (see below) resulted in railroad investor Charles Crocker building a spite fence around a house owned by undertaker Nicolas...
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lawsuit settlement money and insurance payout to buy the house next to Larry's as a "spite house". Roger Swindell (Ben Shenkman) is a lawyer Larry hires...
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Marblehead Harbor, 1908 Front Street, 1914 Lafayette House, c. 1908 Eastern Yacht Club Old Spite House, c. 1912 St. Michael's Church built in 1714 Yachts...
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County Courthouse (1814–1848) Urban Rowhouse (1875) O'Reilly Spite House (1908), built to spite a neighbor who would not sell his adjacent land Contemporary...
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investigate unidentified flying objects (UFOs) Al Ba'sa or The Grudge, a spite house in Beirut Grudge, a character in Making Fiends Search for "grudge" on...
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"In Spite of All the Danger" is the first song recorded by the Quarrymen, then consisting of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, pianist John...
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New York), US Skinny Building Spite house 75½ Bedford St, New York Pie house Smallest house in Amsterdam Smallest House in Great Britain Casa Scaccabarozzi...
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Hollensbury Spite House, Shiloh Baptish Church Saint Mary's Basilica (the first Catholic church in Virginia) Athenaeum Lyceum Vowell-Smith House The Torpedo...
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Victorian house virtually overnight on a triangular plot at the corner of Lena Avenue and Wilson Place to spite the grid designers. The Freeport Spite House still...
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Anti-Polish sentiment Germanisation of Poles during Partitions Kulturkampf Spite house "Nationalheld auf Rädern", Zeit Online, 2004, http://www.zeit.de/2004/26/A-PolBoden...
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a Japanese house out there." "Did Alex Jordan Build The House on the Rock to Spite Frank Lloyd Wright?" (PDF) (Press release). The House on the Rock...
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