SEATTLE — The Seattle house whose former owner refused a $1 million offer to sell didn’t attract any buyers at a Friday auction.
Developers built retail and office buildings around the 1,000-square foot house after Edith Macefield famously refused to sell. She told seattlepi.com in 2007 that she didn’t want the money.
The house has drawn comparisons to the animated Disney film “Up.”
KIRO-TV in Seattle said Macefield stayed in the home for about 50 years until she died of pancreatic cancer at age 86. When she died in 2008, she gave the house to the foreman of the construction project, who had befriended her.
The foreman sold the house in 2009 to a real estate investor whose plans never materialized. The house went into foreclosure.
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