The aptly nicknamed Skinny House at 708 Gladys Avenue (corner of 7th Street) in the Rose Park

Rose Park, Long Beach, California

Rose Park and Rose Park South are two neighborhoods in Long Beach, CA.-History:The Rose Park Historic District gains its name from the small circular park on Orizaba Avenue at the intersection of 8th St. The park was donated to the city in 1910 by the Alamitos Land Company.These neighborhoods were...

 neighborhood of Long Beach

Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

, California

California

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, United States

United States

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 is a narrow three-story house

House

A house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of different dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures...

 that has been cited by both the Guinness Book of World Records and Ripley's Believe It or Not as the nation's skinniest house.

The yellow-stucco

Stucco

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ed Tudor style house was built on a lot measuring 10 feet (3 m) by 50 feet (15.2 m) in 1932 by Nelson Rummond, who received the land as a repayment for a $100 loan one year earlier. He built the 860 square feet (79.9 m²) house after someone bet him that he could not build a habitable house on such a small lot.

In 1959, it was discovered that the house had leaned 4 inches (101.6 mm) to the north, and was straightened. The Skinny House is a registered city landmark of Long Beach, California in 1983.

Public interest lawyer William John Cox

William John Cox

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 maintained his law practice in Skinny House between 1977 and 1981, including his prosecution of the Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews in World War II, usually referred to as the Holocaust. The key claims of Holocaust denial are: the German Nazi government had no official policy or intention of exterminating Jews, Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas...

case.