The aptly nicknamed Skinny House at 708 Gladys Avenue (corner of 7th Street) in the Rose Park neighborhood of Long Beach, California, United States is a narrow three-story house that has been cited by both the Guinness Book of World Records and Ripley's Believe It or Not as the nation's skinniest house.[1][2]
The yellow-stuccoed Tudor style house was built on a lot measuring 10 feet (3.0 m) by 50 feet (15 m) in 1932 by Nelson Rummond, who received the land as a repayment for a $100 loan one year earlier.[3][4][5] He built the 860-square-foot (80 m2) house after someone bet him that he could not build a habitable house on such a small lot.
In 1959, it was discovered that the house had leaned 4 inches (100 mm) to the north, and was straightened. The Skinny House is a registered city landmark of Long Beach, California in 1983.[6][7]
Public interest lawyer William John Cox maintained his law practice in Skinny House between 1977 and 1981, including his prosecution of the Holocaust denial case.[8]