Edith Macefield achieved worldwide notoriety in 2006 when she stubbornly turned down US$1 million to sell her home to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, WA.
Instead, the five-story project was built surrounding her 108-year-old farmhouse, where she died at age 86.
there’s no “kind of” about it… she may be dead, but the historical 108-year-old farmhouse is still there!
“Kind of” was written to draw comment to degrees of winning;for instance:
The house stands, but now looks like a decorated prison cell with a parking place.
and she was able to leave that craphole to whatever relatives she had left, instead of a million sending her grandkids to college and more
sold for 130,000 in 2009