9 People Built Their Houses This Way Just To Piss Someone Else Off

This home, which people still live in today, was built after the city was going to turn a large part of the lot into a street. The owners of the lot decided to build a house only 10 feet wide.

When the owner of one of the neighboring buildings wanted to keep people from using his alley, he built a 7 foot wide house in between the two homes.

Francis O’Reilly got angry in 1908 that the owner of the land next to his own wouldn’t buy his land for what he thought was a good price. Instead of selling at a reduced price, O’Reilly built a home that measured only 8 feet wide.

When the city of Freeport wanted to lay out the streets in a perfect grid, they were forced to change their plans after a landowner built this victorian home on a triangular plot of land. If you look at aerial photos of the town, you’ll see the streets were forced to loop around the lot, which destroyed the symmetry that was planned.

No one is completely sure why this house was built in such an odd shape, but many people believe that two brothers lived in the home, and one was upset by his inheritance. To get back and his brother, he built his part of the house so that it blocked his brother’s view.

The city of Vancouver decided to widen Pender street and ended up taking some land that belonged to the Sam Kee Company. The company then decided to build a building that was only 5 feet wide with windows hanging over the sidewalk on the second floor.

The Skinny House is another that resulted from a pair of pissed off brothers. The two brothers shared a piece of land and one built a large house when the other brother was off serving in the military. When the veteran brother returned, he built the Skinny House, which is wider in the back than it is in front, to block sunlight from his brother.

In 1814 when the town wanted to build a road through Dr. Tyler’s property, he quickly started construction on a new house to block it. A law said that the city wouldn’t be allowed to build a road if a building was under construction in its path.

When this Nevada man wanted to piss off someone, he didn’t pull any punches. He bought the lot next door to the person he hated so much and built his own house less than a foot from the original house. He ended up blocking the view from the home, as well as ventilation.