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It has two bedrooms and one bathroom. There’s also a private garden and roof deck. The story of the unique building, called a “spite house,” dates back to when a man returned home from the Civil War and learned his brother had taken the property. So the man built the tiny house to block sunlight from his brother’s home. (Image Credit: CL Properties)

On September 13th 1757, John Childs completed the first flight in America. Tethered to a rope, and attached to a feathered glider, he flew about 700 feet from the steeple of the Old North Church to the ground. He had placed advertisements in the Boston Gazette preceding the event, and many spectators attended. Brandishing pistols on his third flight, and with local business completely disrupted in the area, the town leaders barred him from any more sorties... An account of the flights was published in the September 23rd 1757 issue of the New-Hampshire Gazette: "[Last] Tuesday in the afternoon John...

BOSTON - The Old North Church, where two lanterns were hung to signal Paul Revere that the British were coming, will receive federal grant money for a fix-up under a change in government policy on church and state. Old North is still an active Episcopal church, and up to now, historically significant structures that were also used for religious purposes have been ineligible for federal historic preservation grants because of concerns about the separation of church and state. But Interior Secretary Gale Norton said Tuesday that under a new policy, all nationally significant historic structures can get grants.