I wanna buy this house, who wants to move in with me? . . . .

[ET Awful]

On 44 Hull Street opposite Copp's Hill can be noted the narrowest house in Boston...just ten feet wide. It is the last remnant of a series of similarly-built homes in about 1800. According to legend, it was built to spite a neighboring house, blocking its light and view..

[Lochloosa]

1. I get the top floor bedroom..

[Deja Q]

4. Okey doke, then I'll be the bottom boy!

:rofl:

[Lochloosa]

8. ..

[LynneSin]

2. If it's in Boston I saw it goes for about $450,000

:shrug:

[ET Awful]

6. I don't know if it's even for sale. I hadn't thought about it in a while

but I remember seeing it last year, and for some reason it just popped into my head this morning :P

[Deja Q]

3. Must houses have much more length and girth to them...

Just as how the houseowner must've been teeny-tiny compared to his neighbor.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Haha! Neighbors spiting neighbors even back then. Kind of makes

me want to go out and put up the 10 foot tall fence that mrG has always wanted. :hi:

[jane_pippin]

7. Spite houses! Here I thought I was crazy...

Apparently we've got a spite house or two in Milwaukee but I can't find any information to back the legend up, so when I point out the spite house to friends they look at me like I'm totally insane. (Rich rivals built mansions about 5 feet from each other overlooking the lake, one blocking the other's giant picture window. So, not so much legend as rich guys being jerks, but jerks with a certain sense of flair, which I enjoy laughing over).

[BlueJazz]

9. I'm thinking of buying THIS Home for my next Wife..Any Takers??

[hippiechick]

10. Yikes !

And I thought the house I'm looking at was sorta small !





:hi:

[jobycom]

11. It's a McMiniHovel! nt.

[kay1864]

12. Found more on this place...

Here's a view showing the "front door" (off the alley)



Excerpt from an article:

Its owners, Jennifer Simonic and Spencer Welton, live a vertical life.

"We can't have any ballroom dancing," said Simonic, who, with her husband, bought the home four years ago. "We had a party of 10 one New Year's Eve, and when one person has to go to the bathroom, everyone has to move."

Living in the house also has a public component. "We've had people just walk into our backyard and sit at our picnic table," said Simonic. "They say, 'We'll just be a couple of minutes, we just want to take a couple of pictures.' That was bizarre."

There are only five doors in the house.

"Instead of doors, we have floors between each space," said Welton, 35, who has a degree in architecture and works for an apartment development company.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/02/13/living_sideways?pg=full

[leftofthedial]

13. where would I put my ping pong table?

and the grand piano?