Boston’s “Spite House” was for sale.

The Skinny House is in Boston, Massachusetts. (AP/Elise Amendola)
The Skinny House is barely 10 feet wide at its widest part. (AP/Elise Amendola)
Would you like to live in the Skinny House?
Dr. John Tyler built this spite house in 1814. It is in Frederick, Maryland. It kept the city from building a road through his land.
In 1908, Francis O’Reilly’s neighbor wouldn’t buy his land. So Mr. O’Reilly built this tiny house on it for spite. (Arnold Reinhold/CC BY-SA 3.0)

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This house is skinny.
It is not really mini.
Between bigger homes
It is squeezed tight.
It was made like this.
It was built for spite.

Read More: “Spite” means to “hurt or be unkind.” The story is that two brothers had land in Boston. One brother went to fight in the Civil War. The other built a big house on most of the land. The soldier brother was angry. He built this skinny house. It blocked the Sun from his brother’s home. The skinny house is no wider than a regular trampoline. But it has great views of the Boston Harbor. Who is its next owner? The Bible reminds us that we are not to do anything out of jealousy or pride. “Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.” Read Philippians 2:3-4.