This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mike Cavanagh, a 51-year-old regional manager for a medical device company, who purchased a skinny house built out of spite in Jacksonville ...

Chatter around the origins of the skinny house has centered on it being built out of spite. Old photos and maps ... a dining room, a living space, and a private garden. The two upper floors ...

Floor blueprints reveal its open-plan design, with the garage opening out into an entryway with a toilet room, followed by a dining room, kitchen and living area. A central stairway emerges into ...

Built on a sliver of land out of pure spite, this eyebrow-raising property has become the talk of the town — and its owner, Mike Cavanagh, 51, couldn’t be more proud. In Jacksonville Beach ...

People turn out to be just as weird and awful as people of this century.” That spite houses are now illegal ... It must be like living in a car,’ ” says Jacobson. “It’s not.