On Twitter, a new interesting thread. User @goshinoghetto talks about the most unusual spite houses - the so-called houses built to spite someone. It's amazing how much effort people are willing to make to vybesit others!
it turns out, there is the phenomenon of "spite house" or "house built out of spite" in Western architecture - residential building, purposely built to vybesit or anger anyone. I begin uninteresting thread about the most famous «spite houses»
- .goshinogetto (@goshinoghetto) October 25, 2019
one of the earliest «spite houses» - Old Spite House in Marblehead, Massachusetts, deliberately built in 1716 by local workers so that spoil the view from the windows of neighboring houses, where his brothers lived, received more substantial inheritance after their death father pic.twitter.com/WEUBlxndMt
- .goshinogetto (@goshinoghetto) October 25, 2019
in 1814 John Tyler ophthalmologist from Frederick, Maryland, learned that the municipality decided to pave the way for the section of his land and He quickly (say, the foundation put almost overnight) built a house on it, to how to annoy the local officials
pic.twitter.com/TKfkET51ct- .goshinogetto (@goshinoghetto) October 25, 2019
in 1874 in Boston appeared Skinny House, a house with a width of 3 meters, built by a local lad in a way that is thorough spoil the view, and to block the sun house sibling who otgrohal themselves on their common plot mansion until this guy served army pic.twitter.com/gpXEZryJAd
- .goshinogetto (@goshinoghetto) October 25, 2019
at the beginning of the 20th century city hall Alameda, California, paved road on land owned by local resident Charles Frolingu. in retaliation too gloating neighbor Charles built on the remaining piece of land in his house, as a result of blocking the view from the windows of a neighbor's house pic.twitter.com/1RPs8kwtIY
- .goshinogetto (@goshinoghetto) October 25, 2019
in 1908, businessman Francis O'Reilly, for ages trying to sell a tiny plot of land in Cambridge, Massachusetts, built a house on it, with a width of 2.4 meters and 11 meters long, in spite of its harmful neighbor, who did not want this very site buy pic.twitter.com/ARVBaywfkP
- .goshinogetto (@goshinoghetto) October 25, 2019
in the 50s, in Virginia City, Nevada, two men quarreled so badly that one of them took the trouble to buy a plot land adjacent to another house and built his home there at a distance of 30 centimeters, thus blocking the view from the windows at the neighbor pic.twitter.com/u4wjC9SZxa
- .goshinogetto (@goshinoghetto) October 25, 2019
In the comments readers connected and added to the list.
Too spite house in Beirut
The brothers shared the land, their legacy, one half inherited, chopped on municipal needs, he built on the remaining land of the house to his brother to block views of the seahttps://t.co/qDEbfMgreFpic.twitter.com/9A7saMEp7x- shame on you shame your cow (@kotche_nash) October 25, 2019
Not exactly spite house, but here's another example of Osaka. A guy owned the land and wanted to build a house, and the government was going to build a highway through the site and did not give permission to build. As a result, we built both. pic.twitter.com/10RX67N96f
- Sergey Dolinin (@svetosil) October 25, 2019
In Minsk there is a public toilet near the theater, which is their own money built the architect. toilet project closely follows the house unfair customer.
Seychach here ticket offices pic.twitter.com/ni5g6K8OwP- Sasha Kuzmіch (@SashaKuzmich) October 25, 2019
In Uralsk (Kazakhstan) a house, too. According to legend, the merchant Ovchinnikov loved to enjoy the dawn in the morning on the balcony, another merchant Karev, otgrohal currently trehetazhku, thereby closing Ovchinnikov review pic.twitter.com/bEOji9AhoJ
- Temer (@ Temer45036524) October 25, 2019
In Argentina, there is a building skyscraper Corina Cowan, who ordered the construction of the building to close view of her rival views of the Basilica of the temple of the Holy Sacrament. pic.twitter.com/fQcI0nLmnt
- numback (@numbackie) October 26, 2019
It seems the whole Belgian architecture is based on these principles pic.twitter.com/UyihcMBTyX
- Dimi (@achkasov) October 26, 2019
Belgian architecture is really impressive at times - we even dedicated it separate article.
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