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farmhouses


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Art & Architecture Thesaurus

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farmhouses

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Chief dwellings attached to farms, particularly a dwelling for the family of a family-owned and -operated farm. Modern farmhouses characteristically comprise two stories with spacious, if modest, rooms and furnishings. Earlier farmhouses were characteristically one-story.

Variations

farm-houses

farm houses

farmhouse

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