garden apartment
noun
plural garden apartments
: a multiple-unit low-rise dwelling having considerable lawn or garden space
… a courtyard lined with … two-story garden apartments …—
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Examples of garden apartment in a Sentence
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The bakery has deep roots in the low-income neighborhood of small single-family homes and garden apartments, many of them with security doors.
—Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Jan. 2024
Some of the places delisted this week are likely airless little boxes worth way less than whatever tourists were paying to sleep there, but my most recent search still turned up brownstones with original moldings and garden apartments with backyard access and laundry in the building.
—Curbed, 11 Sep. 2023
The family had recently moved into a garden apartment in town thanks to donations and hard work, said Mariajose’s mother, Alejandra Serna.
—Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2023
In the New Deal years L.A. saw the advent of very large garden apartment complexes on super blocks, like Village Green, Park La Brea, Channel Heights, and Jordan Downs, designed by architects including Paul R. Williams, Ralph Vaughn, Lloyd Wright, Robert Alexander and Richard Neutra.
—Sheri Koones, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
On the morning of Dec. 23, Jordan and his younger brother, Nicholas, were playing in the living room of their garden apartment with their dad, Latwian Jackson, who was getting ready to log on to his computer to start his work day.
—Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 29 Dec. 2020
Crime scene photos presented during testimony showed that her garden apartment appeared to be in disarray.
—Jessica Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2022
In 1975, Norman and Marna Cary lived on the bottom floor of a Hyattsville garden apartment that backed onto woods near the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River.
—Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2021
Investors FCP and VaultCap Partners have acquired the Corey Place Apartments, a 275-unit garden apartment community at 602 West Pioneer Parkway in Grand Prairie.
—Steve Brown, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2021
Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Jan. 2024
Some of the places delisted this week are likely airless little boxes worth way less than whatever tourists were paying to sleep there, but my most recent search still turned up brownstones with original moldings and garden apartments with backyard access and laundry in the building.
—Curbed, 11 Sep. 2023
The family had recently moved into a garden apartment in town thanks to donations and hard work, said Mariajose’s mother, Alejandra Serna.
—Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2023
In the New Deal years L.A. saw the advent of very large garden apartment complexes on super blocks, like Village Green, Park La Brea, Channel Heights, and Jordan Downs, designed by architects including Paul R. Williams, Ralph Vaughn, Lloyd Wright, Robert Alexander and Richard Neutra.
—Sheri Koones, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
On the morning of Dec. 23, Jordan and his younger brother, Nicholas, were playing in the living room of their garden apartment with their dad, Latwian Jackson, who was getting ready to log on to his computer to start his work day.
—Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 29 Dec. 2020
Crime scene photos presented during testimony showed that her garden apartment appeared to be in disarray.
—Jessica Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2022
In 1975, Norman and Marna Cary lived on the bottom floor of a Hyattsville garden apartment that backed onto woods near the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River.
—Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2021
Investors FCP and VaultCap Partners have acquired the Corey Place Apartments, a 275-unit garden apartment community at 602 West Pioneer Parkway in Grand Prairie.
—Steve Brown, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2021
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1913, in the meaning defined above
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