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Description: The term Spite House has been around for a long time, and it can be due to land not being bought at the deemed right price, a family feud or whatever reason really, and today we explore some of them! The Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas City is said to have quite a rigid view about gay people, and it was not to their delight when a man purchased the property across the road from them, and painted it just like this. 8 - Love Thy Neighbor… You have to wonder what went wrong in this friendship, that one person would deliberately go out of their way to hurt another. Over in Virginia City in Nevada, a miner saved up all his money to buy a piece of land to build his arm. When his enemy heard that news, he decided how to ruin it for the miner. So, he went ahead and bought the plot next door and built his home literally right next to the poor guy… Let’s hope the current neighbors get along! 7 - Doesn’t solve anything… Do you think building this tiny little spite house made Francis O’Reilly feel better after he was refused a reasonable price for the land he was trying to sell? I’m not sure, but it was the year 1908 when he decided to make his piece of land unsellable in the future. The little 8-foot wide house is 308 square feet, and the interior designer who lives in it, says he feels like he is part of a living billboard. 6 - Spoil Sport… This landowner was not excited when he heard that his city was trying to build the neighborhood using a perfect grid system, which would mean them building through his land. So he went ahead and built this Victorian home, which they could not break down and go through. Now the streets of this little town in New York go around the home, destroying any hope of the perfect grid system. 5 - I told you so... This one isn’t much a spite house, more of an, I told you so – which is close enough! This little home was built in California, and was the end result of a bet. The story is told about a man called Newton Rummonds, who got this tiny bit of land in settlement of a $100.00 debt. The neighbors said it was pointless, as nothing could be done on that land… but they were wrong, because there sits this very cute 10-foot-wide little home. 4 - Time to move… This is The Purple House in Lubbock, Texas and in 2001 there were a number of complaints about the home having too many people living there, too much activity and so on – so they painted the house like in response to the complaints received about them. 3 - Payback time… Here’s a little dwelling in Seattle that was built in 1925… again the details are sketchy, but some stories say there was a divorce where the husband was awarded the home and the wife the front yard, and this little home was built to spite the owner of the bigger home. It must have worked, and now it’s quite the tourist attraction too. Despite the size, reports say it’s roomy considering the small dimensions. 2 - I’m convinced! Over in China, they also know spite houses quite well – but there they call them nail houses. Basically, the owners refuse to move when developers want to build through their abode. This one is from 2007, where construction began around the family who refused to move – and yes, they did eventually give in, but not without a fight! 1 - The end result… And this is what happens when every tenant in a building refuses to sell, you find yourself in the middle of a very big highway in the middle of China somewhere – the only ones spited, was themselves!