A 10-Foot Wide House In Boston Sells For $1.25 Million

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The «Skinny House or the «Spite House is 10 feet wide at its widest. It’s been sold for $1.25 million.

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Mary McGee, who lives across the street and has been in the North End for over 40 years, tells Morning Edition that locals know the house as the «Narrow House or more commonly as «The Spite House.

The legend is that two brothers inherited the land some time around the Civil War. One of them went away to fight and came home to find that the other brother had built a house bigger than his share of the land while the other was away.

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Sachs says they had a handful of offers. They sold to a local family of four who offered more than the $1.2 million list price.

«The kids are going to have the bunkbeds and the mother and father are going to be in the master suite next to the private roofdeck. The kids are going to have the whole backyard, he tells Morning Edition. «And they’re also going to have four really skinny levels of house to live in.