tenement house
noun
: apartment building
especially
: one meeting minimum standards of sanitation, safety, and comfort and usually located in a city
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The chef’s table inside the kitchen proves the best seat in this early-20th-century tenement house.
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Kasia Dietz,
Travel + Leisure,
13 May 2026
Shells from the tavern in the basement of Gladstone’s Land, a tenement house in the Scottish capital, filled in gaps in the building’s brickwork.
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Garritt C. Van Dyk,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 May 2025
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Kasia Dietz,
Travel + Leisure,
13 May 2026
Shells from the tavern in the basement of Gladstone’s Land, a tenement house in the Scottish capital, filled in gaps in the building’s brickwork.
—
Garritt C. Van Dyk,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 May 2025
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“Tenement house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tenement%20house. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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