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		<title>Spite House:  Is This For Real?</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Fantasy Architecture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have heard of spite fences.  I have heard of architectural holdouts.  But spite houses are a new thing to me. Spite fences are built by people who want to &#8220;spite&#8221; their neighbor, building a fence that often blocks the view of the unoffending neighbor or otherwise is designed to irritate him or her. Here is a spite fence built by wealthy businessman Charles Crocker on San Francisco&#8217;s Nob Hill to frustrate German undertaker, Nicolas Yung, who owned the smaller house and refused to sell out: An architectural holdout is a building whose owner refuses to sell out to a larger project.  New York was at one time filled with these places in the 20th century; now, not so much.  A typical architectural holdout is a cottage house with a modern hotel wrapped around it. Now, I hear of spite houses, which seem a weird combination of spite fences and holdouts. According to Wikipedia, in its spite house entry: At the turn of the 20th century, the city of Alameda, California, took a large portion of Charles Froling&#8217;s land to build a street. Froling had planned to build his dream house on the plot of land he received through inheritance. [...]]]></description>
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