Spite mounds and Seattle's Denny Regrade, predecessor to the Edith Masefield Story.

By Jack Brummet, Seattle History Ed.

You've probably read about,or seen, Edith Masefield's house in Ballard.  She was a holdout. and a full block commercial development had to build around her house (for which they offered her $1 million):

During the Denny Regrade ( when Seattle sluiced the entire steep Denny Hill down into Elliott Bay), some property owners refused to sell their land.  The engineers carved around their lots, usually leaving houses stranded a hundred feet in the air atop "spite mounds."   The owners all caved in eventually (it took years) and the regrade was completed.

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