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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Eighteen months ago, the Jewish Museum London, which occupied an idiosyncratic, homely town house in Camden, where my wife and I used to take our kids on rainy weekends, closed its doors for lack of funding.
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Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
Along with the tree, bows can be found everywhere inside (and outside) the fashion designer’s West Village town house.
—Kristen Bateman, Architectural Digest, 19 Dec. 2024
In the years prior to her big break in the film Winter’s Bone, Lawrence lived in a modest town house in Santa Monica, which her parents purchased for $879,000 in 2006.
—Joyce Chen, Architectural Digest, 19 Dec. 2024
Housed in a 17th century town house in the heart of the Marais, the Haus of Strauss covers three floors with rooms designs for meeting spaces, exhibitions and showrooms.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 12 Dec. 2024
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Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
Along with the tree, bows can be found everywhere inside (and outside) the fashion designer’s West Village town house.
—Kristen Bateman, Architectural Digest, 19 Dec. 2024
In the years prior to her big break in the film Winter’s Bone, Lawrence lived in a modest town house in Santa Monica, which her parents purchased for $879,000 in 2006.
—Joyce Chen, Architectural Digest, 19 Dec. 2024
Housed in a 17th century town house in the heart of the Marais, the Haus of Strauss covers three floors with rooms designs for meeting spaces, exhibitions and showrooms.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Town house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/town%20house. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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