summerhouse
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In future episodes, we will speak with buyers considering alternatives such as 3D-printed homes or a summerhouse in their parents’ backyard, and with renters opting out of homeownership entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
She wore Poiret gowns, opened galleries, lent Djuna Barnes the summerhouse where she wrote “Nightwood.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2019
Famously, Thomas Mann, the Nobel prize-winning German author of The Magic Mountain, had a summerhouse here where he’d holiday with his family in the early 1930s.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2018
Its trail takes in the poet's favourite drinking establishments, the summerhouse, and the village that became his home.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2014
I can recall spotting from some distance - long before reaching the steps where my father had once fallen - Miss Kenton's figure moving about inside the summerhouse.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
For the gardens, sometimes called "hortyards," there were summerhouses, greenhouses, and arbors.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman
In 1621, and in 1624, he repeated his visit, when he built many summerhouses and palaces at Atchabull, Shalimar, &c., and in A.D.
From Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet by William Henry Knight
His fancy peopled the shaded walks and summerhouses, which were scattered about it, with the joyous throng of gallant knights and stately ladies, enjoying themselves with mirth and song.
From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Wilhelm Hauff
In every town there stood "scaffolding" or raised platforms, where the inhabitants frequently sat and conversed, and which served somewhat the same purpose as our own outdoor summerhouses of olden times.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman
I drew near to the village: all the well-known old summerhouses and gardens were recognised again; I disliked the new ones, and all other alterations which had taken place.
From The Sorrows of Young Werther by R. Dillon Boylan
