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.
Oh. That’s the story then. The story isn’t that she was offered a million and refused. That’s normal.
The story is that she sold it for $0.3 million later. That’s remarkable.
She died before it was sold.