Talk about sore loser! The City of Alameda re-appropriated his inherited land, so he built this slim fugly eye-sore as revenge to block neighbor's view and light, a symbolic architectural "shove it"! LOL! The house is just 54 feet long but only 10 feet wide. Would you do this your neighbors? CityLab has all the sordid deets:
About a century ago, a Bay Area man named Charles Froling was just learning that he wouldn't be able to build his dream house. An inheritance had gifted him a sizable chunk of land, but municipal elders in the City of Alameda had decided to appropriate most of it to extend a street.
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