as in vicarage
the building in which a parson lives
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Recent Examples of parsonage
Following the break from the church, the Jonas family moved out of the parsonage house and into a two-bedroom home.
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Ilana Frost, People.com, 11 Aug. 2025
In 2017, Powell used the First AME Zion Church in San Jose as collateral for a loan of $750,000 to purchase a parsonage, instructing Quintana in executing the property agreement and creating a resolution from the church’s trustee board to approve the transaction, prosecutors said.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 16 July 2025
At my church, First Congregational Church of Woodbury, an 18th-century bequest stipulated that the parsonage reverts to the donor’s heirs if the church deviates from the theological intent of the benefactor, the Rev. Noah Benedict.
—The Rev. Jake Dell, Hartford Courant, 7 July 2025
When Anne was just three months old, Patrick was appointed the reverend of a nearby church, and the family moved to the Haworth parsonage.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
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Ilana Frost, People.com, 11 Aug. 2025
In 2017, Powell used the First AME Zion Church in San Jose as collateral for a loan of $750,000 to purchase a parsonage, instructing Quintana in executing the property agreement and creating a resolution from the church’s trustee board to approve the transaction, prosecutors said.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 16 July 2025
At my church, First Congregational Church of Woodbury, an 18th-century bequest stipulated that the parsonage reverts to the donor’s heirs if the church deviates from the theological intent of the benefactor, the Rev. Noah Benedict.
—The Rev. Jake Dell, Hartford Courant, 7 July 2025
When Anne was just three months old, Patrick was appointed the reverend of a nearby church, and the family moved to the Haworth parsonage.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
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Neighbors fear ‘screaming, shouting, and splashing’ The Sun first reported that Horner and Halliwell had sent off planning permission last year to build a 40ft x 16ft swimming pool at their vicarage house residence, which Horner bought for £2 million ($2.5 million) in 2006.—
Ryan Hogg,
Fortune Europe,
27 Mar. 2024
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As the anger beyond the vicarage rises, the tenor of the debates across the kitchen table grow more urgent.—
Gordon Cox,
Variety,
6 July 2022
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Earlier this year, a church rectory in Cleveland Heights was converted into housing for students, namely women and children in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights school district.—
Grace Tucker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
21 Oct. 2025
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The accompanying two-story rectory was built with brick and looks similar in style to homes in the neighborhood.—
Cate Charron,
IndyStar,
2 Oct. 2025
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Victorian-style Maine manse According to listing records, King paid $135,000 for his Bangor, Maine, home in 1980.—
Katie Schultz,
Architectural Digest,
23 Oct. 2025
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The 15,500-square-foot, seven-bedroom manse conveniently has its own movie theater, wine cellar and helipad for easy commutes.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
16 Sep. 2025
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Ingoglia and DeSantis want Florida voters to mandate tax cuts through constitutional amendments next year, which could include eliminating property taxes on primary residences.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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According to police, Laudermilk emerged from a residence on Polk County Road 14 armed with a handgun and fired a shot.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
24 Oct. 2025
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In the five years just before war set in, these were among the dwellings that had beguiled Heinz Gaube (1940–2022), a German academic at the Oriental Seminar of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Oct. 2025
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In multiunit dwellings, secondhand smoke can seep in from many places, including vents and cracks in walls or floors.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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The excavation began in February 2025, in anticipation of future housing development near a modern-day hermitage, according to a statement from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP).—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 June 2025
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The Abbey of Saint Gall, originally a hermitage south of Lake Constance, was founded by one of his companions, Saint Gall (or Gallus).—
Bernd Roeck
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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The nearly 12,000-square-foot contemporary Mediterranean abode was designed by megamansion architect Richard Landry, boasting six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a theater, a game room, a study, and an elevator.—
Katie Schultz,
Architectural Digest,
24 Oct. 2025
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During the season 7 premiere of Hulu’s The Kardashians, the Kardashian-Jenner family matriarch, 69, and her daughters reflect on the Los Angeles abode that served as the backdrop for many memorable moments on their original reality series, Keeping Up with the Kardashians.—
Natalia Senanayake,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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Earlier in the day, Kardashian was spotted attending the All's Fair premiere in Paris wearing a baby blue vintage Dior by John Galliano gown from the house's Spring/Summer 2000 collection.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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Seriously, the answers are like, not all that far from her house.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Parsonage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parsonage. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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