 Edith Macefield

Edith Macefield (August 21, 1921 – June 15, 2008) was a real estate holdout who received worldwide attention in 2006 when she turned down an offer of $ to sell her house to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington (originally reported as a package worth $750,000).Instead, the five-story project was built surrounding her 108-year-old farmhouse, where she died at age 86 in 2008.