Written by coream at 6/18/2009 10:10:00 AM





Edith Macefield achieved worldwide notoriety in 2006 when she stubbornly turned down $1 million to sell her home to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle... In the process, she became something of a folk hero... Instead, the five-story project was built around her 108-year-old farmhouse...