In 2006, 84-year-old Seattle homeowner Edith Macefield reportedly rejected a $1 million offer, so developers built a five-story complex around three sides of her house

Construction cranes transformed Seattle's Ballard neighborhood in 2006, where one modest century-old house remained exactly where it had always been. Its owner, Edith Macefield, then 84, reportedly turned down a buyout package worth about $1 million, even as neighboring properties were sold and demolished to make way for a large commercial development.

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