Spite houses: where 'good fences make good neighbors' meets 'but this wall is better'.
Houses built for one purpose: to make the neighbors miserable
A spite house is a building erected solely to annoy a neighbor—by blocking light, ruining a view, or just being a permanent monument to a grudge. The 10-foot-wide Old Spite House in Marblehead, MA, is a classic example, built in 1716 after a dispute over inheritance.
Source: Houses built for one purpose: to make the neighbors miserable — BoingBoing
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