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Everyone thinks Boston’s famed skinny house, sold for $1.25 million, was built out of spite — but that might be a century-old myth.

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Everyone thinks Boston’s famed skinny house, sold for .25 million, was built out of spite — but that might be a century-old myth.

  • In 2021, a Boston home just 10 feet wide sold for a whopping $1.25 million.
  • Chatter around the origins of the skinny house has centered on it being built out of spite.
  • Old photos and maps suggest that the skinny house was actually carved out of an existing building.

There’s a tiny sliver of a house on Boston’s Freedom Trail.

The 10-foot-wide home is sandwiched between the two regular-sized properties, with a narrow private alley separating it from the building next door.

Behind the slender facade of 44 Hull Street sits a modern home with two bedrooms and one bathroom over 1,000 square feet.

According to the Zillow listing the last time it was for sale, the ground level of the skinny house has a full-size kitchen, two bedrooms, a dining room, a living space, and a private garden.

The two upper floors contain several sitting areas, a guest bedroom, a bathroom, and a laundry room. It sold for $1.25 million in 2021.

There’s no shortage of unique homes in the US and abroad. But an urban legend that Boston’s skinny house was built out of spite — from a feud between two brothers — has made the property a viral phenomenon.

Still, the story about the skinny house’s spiteful origins may not be true.

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