brownstone
noun
brown·stone
ˈbrau̇n-ˌstōn 
1
: a reddish-brown sandstone used for building
2
: a dwelling faced with brownstone
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She lives in a beautiful brownstone in Manhattan.
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The listing agent indicated that Sargent will use the five-story, nearly 5,700-square-foot brownstone residence in the city’s ritzy Back Bay neighborhood as a second home, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 Dec. 2025
Stop by and be welcomed into the brownstone with classic Back Bay decor, holiday decorations (but of course), and Santa himself.
—Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 7 Dec. 2025
By the middle of the 20th century, the handsome brownstone had been chopped up into a rooming house, and in the early 1980s, it was reconfigured with one apartment on each of its five floors.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2025
The house is a cartoonishly typical three-story brownstone two blocks off Prospect Park by Seventh Avenue — an area that, unfathomably today, wasn’t as fancy when the actor and his late wife, Jo Andres, bought it in 1997, not long after Buscemi’s memorable roles in Fargo and Reservoir Dogs.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 1 Dec. 2025
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Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 Dec. 2025
Stop by and be welcomed into the brownstone with classic Back Bay decor, holiday decorations (but of course), and Santa himself.
—Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 7 Dec. 2025
By the middle of the 20th century, the handsome brownstone had been chopped up into a rooming house, and in the early 1980s, it was reconfigured with one apartment on each of its five floors.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2025
The house is a cartoonishly typical three-story brownstone two blocks off Prospect Park by Seventh Avenue — an area that, unfathomably today, wasn’t as fancy when the actor and his late wife, Jo Andres, bought it in 1997, not long after Buscemi’s memorable roles in Fargo and Reservoir Dogs.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 1 Dec. 2025
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“Brownstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brownstone. Accessed 21 Dec. 2025.
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brownstone
noun
brown·stone
ˈbrau̇n-ˌstōn
1
: a reddish brown sandstone used for building
2
: a dwelling covered with a layer of brownstone
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