town house
noun
1
: a usually single-family house of two or sometimes three stories that is usually connected to a similar house by a common sidewall
also
: row house
2
: a house in town
specifically
: the city residence of one having a country seat or having a chief residence elsewhere
stayed at their town house during the social season
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The Bernheim installation includes a line cut into the wall that stretches through the whole first floor of the gallery’s town house—a nod to Rockburne’s spatial thinking.
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Grace Edquist, Vogue, 25 Nov. 2024
More top business stories: WLS-Channel 7 news anchor Terrell Brown lists South Shore home for $800,000
Tinley Park housing development takes shape east of downtown, where apartments, town houses planned
Will the Chicago Bears change who calls offensive plays?
—Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2024
While living in the garden-level apartment of an 1878 town house on the Upper East Side, Domingo says three friends independently described seeing a tall, bearded man with a top hat in the space.
—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 25 Oct. 2024
In an elegant town house on the street, Bashar al-Assad’s father-in-law, Fawaz Akhras, has a cardiology practice.
—Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Grace Edquist, Vogue, 25 Nov. 2024
More top business stories: WLS-Channel 7 news anchor Terrell Brown lists South Shore home for $800,000
Tinley Park housing development takes shape east of downtown, where apartments, town houses planned
Will the Chicago Bears change who calls offensive plays?
—Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2024
While living in the garden-level apartment of an 1878 town house on the Upper East Side, Domingo says three friends independently described seeing a tall, bearded man with a top hat in the space.
—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 25 Oct. 2024
In an elegant town house on the street, Bashar al-Assad’s father-in-law, Fawaz Akhras, has a cardiology practice.
—Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Town house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/town%20house. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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