A ten-foot, four-inch-wide home in Boston sold in 2021 for $1.25 million. Boston’s Skinny House, sometimes referred to as a spite house, is at 44 Hull Street in the city’s North End.

The left bank hosted almost impenetrable canebrake and tall bamboo, while the right bank was more open, with large timber.

Frances Browne, poet and novelist, was blind from the age of eighteen months. She is best known for her collection of children's stories.