Although he considered the house ugly and uncomfortable, he stayed there until his death almost 30 years later.

"For an impressively ugly house, it lights up real nice," said Step.

Were he to be told that this was the best or the ugliest house in the world, he would agree with either.

It's an ugly house and I think it must have been a sad house.

The goal of the ordinance, a local official said, was to "put a stop to the ugly and stupid houses that we see going up."

The big, quiet, ugly house had been a haven.

Like him, it's an ugly little house, a dreadful color.

There must have been other people in the big ugly house but there was no sound.

From now on, you stay here inside this ugly house.

But it was the ugliest house she'd ever seen.