Iconic ‘Spite House’ hits market for $1.2m

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The iconic “Spite House” reaches the market for $ 1.2 million. Image: real estate agent; Google Maps


An iconic “Spite House” in the United States has reached the market again for $ 799,000 ($ A1.2 million), exactly 100 years after its construction.

Better known as the “Sespes de Montlake” house, the wedge -shaped house was built in the Seattle neighborhood in 1925.

The two bedroom residence, which measures only 55 inches in ATS Slimpest Point, has become a local legend.

According to multiple reports, his property was supposedly built by its original owner in a revenge law, a neighbor in the middle of a furious dispute over the land

The legend has it, a woman created Seijs’s revenge house against her ex -husband, Realtor reports.

After she and her spouse separated, she received a small plot of 3,090 square feet of her shared property in the divorce agreement, in which she decided to build a small house in an attempt to “block her view in the front courtyard”, according to Home. “

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The infamous “Montlake Spite House” of Seattle has returned to the market for $ US799000, exactly 100 years after its construction. Image: Real Estate Agent


As the legend says, the house, which is wedge -shaped and measures only 55 inches wide at its thinner point, was built as a small act of revenge. Image: Real Estate Agent


The property is very similar to a traditional house from the front and the side. Image: Real Estate Agent


It is understood that housing has leg bases on a small plot of land by a woman who seeks to take revenge on her ex -husband, owner of the house below. Image: Real Estate Agent


Mrs. Cangie, who bought the house in 2019, according to the records, opened its doors in 2023 for a video tour Wituber Kirsten Dirksen, while sharing details about the history of property.

“The story tells that he decided to build a house to block his point of view in the front courtyard,” Cangie said, explaining that, at the time of his divorce, the woman could not “get her own loan in the United States”

Then, having been unable to buy his own property, he built the house, which since then has consolidated his place in Seattle’s history books.

However, another version of the story suggests that the house was built by a landowner who wanted to take revenge on a neighbor who made a “insultly low” sacrifice on the land where the house is located.

According to the most recent owner of the house, the unique design of the property does not cause many defects in everyday life. Image: Real Estate Agent


The widest points have been used as the main living spaces. Image: Real Estate Agent


Anyway, the property has earned the quitogation over the years, since it has been sold for the first time in 1983 for $ US50,000.

Today, the house is registered in a LLC under the name of “Montlake Spite House”; However, the records indicate that he has no leg since Mrs. Cangie and her husband bought it.

However, the house has undergone a serious image change in recent years, which saw its exterior once yellow transformed into an elegant bluish green tone.

His description of the list does not try to hide the unique wanging design, joking that the property is to “bet” to the local neighborhood, and point out their somewhat strange proportions.

“It enters the historic neighborhood of Montlake of Seattle, the Spanish forwarding style Montlake Spite House measures 15 feet wide one side and only 55 inches in the other,” he says.

The description then draws attention to the many updates that have been made to the two -story dwelling, including a “new paint, a new water heater and an updated kitchen.”

“The brilliant main floor sacrifices a living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen,” he continues. “The lower level has a family room, bedroom, laundry, bathroom and separate entrance, ideal for guests, airbnb or an adu.”

One of the two bedrooms on the property is open and is aerated with a bath size bath. Image: Real Estate Agent


The lower level has a small space that has become the second bedroom. Image: Real Estate Agent


Duration of its YouTube tour of the house, Mrs. Cangie insisted that the peculiar form of the house did not cause too many difficulties, Althegh Sheed Conedo that the areas in which the property narrows almost to a perfect point is harder to navigate.

“The bathroom is where the angles become rare … it makes me think of bathrooms in New York,” he joked.

“I mean, compared to New York, [we’re] Simply funny that there is no bathroom in [the] bedroom. “

Referring to the house as her “small cheese wedge”, Mrs. Cangie admitted that she was initially worried about living in Windel’s home as if she resided in an “avalanche”, but that the most intimate spaces are current. At the moment.

She uses to compare the home with the iconic Flatiron building in New York, explaining that, despite having numerous owners over the years, the property structure has never been expanded.

“Everyone’s son or left him intact,” he said. “As far as we know, this is the original footprint and is in good shape.”

Parts of this story appeared for the first time in Realtor and was published again with permission.

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