Edith Macefield, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEdith Macefield
American real-estate holdout
Date of Birth: 21-Aug-1921
Place of Birth: Oregon, United States
Date of Death: 15-Jun-2008
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About 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 $1 million 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.
- In the process, she became something of a folk hero.After she died, Macefield willed her house to the new building's construction superintendent, Barry Martin, in gratitude for his friendship and caretaker role.
- Martin told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "Two or three times she was basically going to sell and move, and then I know the last time she ended up falling and breaking some ribs, and that kind of took the gas out of her, and then it was just too much work."
Read more at Wikipedia