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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/minikiwigeek2 on 2024-08-23 23:17:17+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 2006, a woman named Edith Macefield turned down a reported offer of $1 million to sell her 108-year-old farmhouse to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Instead, the five-story project was built surrounding her house.