June 23, 2026 Energy, engineering, and the wild world they touch
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Watts and Wild: energy, engineering, and the wild world they touch

An absurdly narrow four-storey spite house wedged between two normal brick buildings on a Boston street Curiosities

Some Americans got so furious with a neighbour or the city that they built an entire house purely to annoy them, and a handful of these spite houses are still standing today

From a four-foot-wide house in Boston to a wall built to block a view, spite houses are what happens when a grudge picks up a hammer.

By Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges · July 2, 2026

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