A stubborn 84-year-old woman forced developers to build a new mall around her tiny home after turning down a million dollar buy-out offer.
Edith Macefield refused to move from the 108-year-old farmhouse, despite pleas from desperate planners who wanted to bulldoze the property.
She even rejected a $1m [£768.285] offer for the home in Seattle, Washington, with her story making national headlines back in 2006, according to the Daily Star.
The small property, which many believed was the inspiration for Disney's smash-hit film Up, still stands resolute among the five-storey complex surrounding it.
Macefield, who originally bought the home for $3,750 [£2,880.58], moved in along with her mother Alice in 1952 while working as a store manager, the Seattle Times reports.
Despite the property not being worth much itself, developers first offered the pensioner $750,000 [ £576,213.75] before increasing it to $1 million.
But the life-changing sum didn't sway Macefield's mind, with her friend stating that although she didn't object to the development, she didn't want to have to go through the stress of moving.
Barry Martin, who was the construction manager for the major build, became good friends with her and helped her with favours such as making her meals and giving her a lift to appointments.
The pair became so close that Macefield left the house to Marin when she passed away in 2008.
Unfortunately, Martin had to sell the property when he became unemployed during an economic "downturn", reports LadBible.
However, the pensioner gave him her blessing to sell before she died.
“She told me to hold out until I got my price. I sold it for $310,000 [£238,128.05]," he told Fox’s Strange Inheritance.
Despite reports that suggest Macefield's story inspired the 2009 movie Up, it was later revealed that the production began years earlier in 2004.
However, Disney did use the house to premiere the movie in Seattle by decorating the front of the house with balloons.
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