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tenement house

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as in apartment house

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Recent Examples of tenement house The chef’s table inside the kitchen proves the best seat in this early-20th-century tenement house. — 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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The heavy equipment was then set to take off the front of the apartment house where the fire began, because investigators still have not determined the cause of the fire and needed access to find out.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 11 June 2026
At the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 70th Street, one such residence occupies a stately 1920s apartment house designed by renowned architect Rosario Candela.

— Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 28 May 2026

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On the sidewalk in front of her family apartment building in the Leopoldstadt neighborhood, the families of her adult grandchildren have placed a Stone of Remembrance, a brass plaque providing her lifespan and site of death.

— David Pollak, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
That March, Tahmasbi noticed strangers loitering around his apartment building.

— Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026

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