Skinny House (Long Beach)
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, as of 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]
See also
- List of City of Long Beach Historic Landmarks
References
- ↑ 101 Things to do in Long Beach, California
- ↑ LA Times, October 29, 2001
- ↑ His first name is disputed: it was either Newton or Nelson.
- ↑ Longbeach.gov
- ↑ Virtual Globe Trotting.com
- ↑ Long Beach Historic Landmark designation 16.52.170
- ↑ Press-Telegram, Famed `Skinny House' in Long Beach, Calif., Goes Up for Sale., October 26, 2001
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNVAmjQEUuE
Coordinates: 33°46′32.2″N 118°09′27.7″W / 33.775611°N 118.157694°W