Edith Macefield
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title:
Edith Macefield
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Edith Macefield was a real estate holdout who received worldwide attention in 2006 when she turned down an offer of $1 million to sell her house to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Instead, the five-story project was built surrounding her 108-year-old farmhouse, where she died at age 86 in 2008. In the process, she became something of a folk hero. After she died, Macefield willed her house to the new building's construction superintendent,
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encyclopedia
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American real-estate holdout (1921–2008)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Macefield
date created:
2008-06-23T20:06:56Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T18:23:44Z
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