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Bookmark or Share- Even in death, ‘Up’ house owner Edith Macefield remains a mysteryJust who was Edith Macefield? EDITH MACEFIELD lived at 1438 N.W. 46th St., right by the Ballard Bridge, in the same story-and-a-half house since 1952. We call it the “Up” house. She called...
- The Story Behind Seattle's "Up House" - National Trust for Historic ...By: Nick Totten. The home of the late Edith Macefield has stood in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle for more than a century, but its fame has only developed over the last decade through the tenacity of its former owner, and with a little help from pop culture.
- Edith Wilson Macefield: A House Is Your Home - HistoryLink.orgEdith Wilson Macefield (1921-2008) refused to sell her home in the Seattle neighborhood of Ballard and received worldwide attention as a multi-story mall was built around her little house. This People's History by Linda Holden Givens is based on her interview with Barry Martin (b. 1956), the project superintendent for the new mall who ...
- Woman who refused to sell tiny Ballard home diesSeattle Times staff reporter. A Seattle woman who garnered attention for refusing to sell her tiny cottage to developers in Ballard has died. Edith Macefield died inside her Ballard cottage on...
- Edith Macefield - WikiwandEdith 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).
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