9 of the world's thinnest buildings: 75 1/2 Bedford Street

9 of the world's thinnest buildings

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Narrow house located at 75 1/2 Bedford Street in New York

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Brent from Bmore Nov 11 2011 at 9:11 PM

Don't forget about the "Skinny House" in Federal Hill, Baltimore, MD - text from article in the Baltimore City Paper: All right, then: Where is the city’s very narrowest rowhouse? I have been looking for it since moving here 20 years ago, but it was City Paper photographer Michelle Gienow who directed me to 2001/2 E. Montgomery St. in Federal Hill, known locally (and identified on its stained-glass transom) as “The Little House” (pictured). Just under 9 feet wide, it’s a mid-19th century

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jewel, with tight, clean brickwork. Its current resident, Marty Loftus, says the house was built about 150 years ago by the owner of the house next-door at 200 E. Montgomery St. A previous owner told Loftus the builder owned a brickyard on the present-day site of Rash Field. Clay for the bricks—presumably including the bricks he used to build his own houses—was dug right out of Federal Hill. The Little House was built when the brickmaker’s grown daughter said she wanted to move back home. The indulgent dad tore out a rose garden and replaced it with the tiny house. Loftus, a retired steelworker, makes no claims for the accuracy of the narrowest-house legend. “All I know,” he says, “is the tour buses come by the house and tell people all kinds of foolish nonsense about it.” link to the article: http://www2.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=8573