The five-story house stood in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, in China’s Zhejiang province, according to CBS News. The road had not yet opened to traffic. The owners still had electricity, running water and cable TV, per Al Jazeera.
The owner, Luo Baogen, a 67-year-old duck farmer, had finished building the house shortly before officials first approached him, CBS News said. It cost about 600,000 yuan, or about $95,000.
Most families in Luo’s village of 1,600 accepted compensation in 2007, CBS News reported. Luo did not. The government’s first offer was 220,000 yuan, which rose to 260,000 yuan, but he wanted a new home. “We want a new house on a two-unit lot with simple interior decoration,” he told local reporters.
Luo and his wife slept in separate parts of the house to discourage a partial demolition, CBS News said. The road was built around the home, and photos of it spread online. “What a sight. I hope they can carry on,” one blogger wrote, according to Al Jazeera.
The standoff ended on Dec. 1, 2012. Luo signed a demolition agreement the day before, and excavators tore the house down on Saturday morning, according to Amusing Planet. The house had stood alone in the road for more than a year.
Luo agreed to accept 260,000 yuan, about $41,000, NBC News reported. That was the same amount that had been offered a week earlier, and Amusing Planet said it was unclear why he accepted when he did.
Buildings like Luo’s are called nail houses, because they stick up and are hard to remove. Chinese bloggers called his the toughest of them, per Amusing Planet. Two American homeowners also turned down $1 million: Vera Coking’s Atlantic City boardinghouse sold for $583,000 at auction in 2014, and a five-story building went up around Edith Macefield’s Seattle house.
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