Houses built for one purpose: to make the neighbors miserable

A spite house is a building put up to punish someone - by blocking a neighbor's light, ruining a view, or planting a permanent monument to a grudge in their sightline. America has been building them for centuries. In 1716, sailmaker Thomas Wood built the ten-foot-wide Old Spite House in Marblehead, Massachusetts - by one account, sized precisely to block the view of two houses on Orne Street after its owner got a small share of his father's estate. - Read the rest

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