The Houses Built to Ruin Lives | Tales From the Bottle
It takes a lot of time and money to be this petty, but that’s no problem for the people who build “spite houses”.
“A spite house is a building constructed or substantially modified to irritate neighbors or any party with land stakes. Because long-term occupation is not the primary purpose of these houses, they frequently exhibit strange and impractical structures.
Spite houses may deliberately obstruct light, block access to neighboring buildings, or be flagrant symbols of defiance. Spite house are a particularly local kind of hostile architecture meant to annoy/irritate a particular person.
Although, in the US, homeowners generally have no right to views, light, or air, neighbors can sue for a negative easement. In instances regarding a spite build, courts are far more likely to side with the neighboring parties which may have been affected by that build. For example, the Coty v. Ramsey Associates, Inc. case of 1988 ruled that the defendant’s spite farm constituted a nuisance, granting the neighboring landowner a negative easement.
Spite houses, as well as spite farms, are considerably rarer than spite fences. This is partially because modern building codes often prevent the construction of houses likely to impinge on neighbors’ views or privacy, but mostly because fence construction is far cheaper, quicker, and easier than building construction. There are also similar structures known as spite walls or blinder walls.”
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May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
The Pink House of Plum Island was demolished in 2025
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@eshleyyy
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
If I had enough mental fortitude to sustain ragebait against that god forsaken church throughout my day to day (and the money to afford it) id defo buy the trans house. I've never felt a stronger aura emanate from a house before
@KhazarRepublicanArmy
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
8:12 BIG CITY GREENS!!!
@MrMetalMaestro
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
Experiencing interruptions? lolz0rz
@Anicka1
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
The Cavanagh building in Argentina is a very famous example of this
@te1858
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
As a note about the Gay House in Topeka, KS next to the Westboro Baptist Church: saying "2 houses across the street" doesn't really do it justice – the house is literally RIGHT there across the small residential street. If you turn on that corner, you'll the see big ugly WBP super-tall fence (with their "God hates 'frags' " website sign poking out above) on the right, and the rainbow house directly to your left. Source: I grew up in Westboro a stones throw away from the "church", and witnessed the house being built/painted a while back
@tastychapstick2213
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
comment for algorithm <3
@Studeb
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
What is so strange about the hold outs in China is that they sometimes build roads around then, sometimes remove millions of people for a dam. So why do the rules change so drastically?
@Stealth86651
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
You know, considering the first thing everyone did when Minecraft first released, I'm genuinely disappointed that earth isn't covered in massive, ancient stone penors just poking out the dirt from civilizations past. I know we've got the drawings and jokes and such, but just surprised no one felt like spending a stupid amount of money/slaves to build one.
@sirhcsuiris
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
You think those names are funny? I mean. They are.
But, there is a liquor store in Beaver Creek, Colorado named…Beaver Liquors.
@Nacho-nf2hq
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
My favourite holdout house story is from two adjacent houses sharing a large plot of land in the middle of a big city. Some old guy owned both properties and he sold them to a developer who wanted to build an apartment complex, he sold them both under the condition that the ownership would transfer after his death.
When the tenants of the second house were notified that they would be kicked out as soon as the landlord passes away, they started planting protected species of trees into the large plot of land. By the time the landlord passed away several years later, the developers were unable to build in the land, so the company sold it to a NGO that converted the existing building into a cultural/event centre
@FatalKitsune
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
The bar one seems kind of like a win-win. Bar doesn't have to move and gets a building full of new customers. The residents of the apartment building now have a bar right outside to go to.
@Major-Casse
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
God, i wish i could piss someone off enough that they'd built a house to blot out the sun for me.
Both because fuck them, but also because I want out of the damn sun.
@RyanJSeavey
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
The pink house on Plum Island is gone sadly
@grasshopperfiddler
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
Right now THE WHITE HOUSE IS A SPITE HOUSE
@GAMEPRO24X
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
It's so nice seeing normal average wage people able to just build homes willy nilly. Fast forward to today where that's not a possibility
@ThZuao
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
The Hess Family should have built a triangular Obelisk.
@ravenRedwake
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
8:49 I’m surprised that China wouldn’t just…disappear then or put them in a labor camp or something.
@ericmoon2974
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
Fuck yeah
@korratargaryen
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
I dunno why but you sometimes sound like you work for RTE news 💀💀
@rolandmeiner4970
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
The greatest spite house is the Victor Emmanuel II Monumentin Rome Italy. The king did not like the pope and he built so the pope could not look at his favorite church, the basilica santa maria in arancoeli
@asdergold1
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
Shut up, toucan.
@critaspaine
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
The Thirsty Beaver is in Charlotte, NC. It became somewhat famous when Mick Jagger stopped in for drinks and posted it to his Social Media.
@HenryShoemaker-be4dd
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
I'll never own a house and these people are just throwing them around out of spite
@maxflex2000
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
As a species, we're pretty fked
@yermomgay
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
Every house is a spite house.
@Hanmacx
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
8:52 i don't know what is spite more
The house in the middle of the road?
Or the road going around the house? 😅
@spacecowboy2483
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
Nice to see Qxir including my country (Argentina) in one of his videos!
@CaptainRex332
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
I was doing some repair work at a mansion and I was told that the owners had a bad neighbour who would constantly brag about how nice his house was.
so they bought the nearly 10 million dollar house just to tear it down and have a bigger front lawn lmao
@SmuttySwine
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
Here's one more hold out in coral gables Florida
https://maps.app.goo.gl/UkEQpZoSkQf4f9Bx7
@yasirozer4782
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
There are two more spite-itacture that I know of. One in Sarajevo, called Inat Kuca literally meaning Spite house. It's similar to the guy building a house for his ex wife but along the lines of religious divide (surprising in Balkans i know). A muslim guy refused to leave his house which was delineated in the christian part of the town unless they built an exact replica in the muslim quarter and they did.
The other one I know is sort of a legend but in the Grand Mosque of Bursa, there is a fountain for ablution which is under a transparent dome. The legend goes that an old jewish woman refused to sell his plot to sultan for mosque contruction. They had to built the mosque over and around her small hut. After she died they turned the plot in to a water feature. This seems highly unlikely but a fun little story nonetheless.
@theofficialsikris
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
Ah yes the "Eighdeen tirty." spite house.
@DalekDalmatian-the-prop-maker
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
I liked it when bro lost it at plumisland which wasn't as bad as gaylordsville but just the start of these unnecessary names making him lose all seriousness of the places these buildings were built
@DustinBrooks-tl4bh
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
Oh..my…lord…my great-great grandparents had a spite house. Nobody ever called it that, but it's a weirdly shaped thing that my great uncle still lives in to this day. It was right next to my great grandmother's house and from all accounts my folks did not all get along back then and this video certainly helped make sense out of a lot of old family stories, so really thank you for that!
@Swannman
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
The Tipsy Beaver seems like it won in the end.
@BigBuddooMonkee
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 am
90% just Americans?
Yeah, that checks out. Toxic ppl, man.
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