Set in a creaking old town house, the 15 rooms possess the original 19th-Century bones to offset their Rose Bowl-sourced and individually furnished interiors, a cosy of velvet settees, fringed lamps and sepia-toned writing paper.

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She hid the dog under her coat on the school bus, and then, instead of going straight to school, she took Blitzee back to our old house in town, which was less than a block away.

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The Old Quay House in the small town of Fowey is the epitome of the upmarket trend.

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An eccentric woman arrives in a small town, rents an old house and opens a cram school.

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On February 26th, seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin left a house in a town outside Orlando and walked to a store.

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He lives in a squalid two-room house in the heart of the old shanty town with his wife and small child.

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"We are so thankful that our baby and eight-year-old daughter are with family in Cape Town and were not in the house at the time of the fire, " he said.

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In Hotel Missoni, the Italian fashion house has established a style icon in the heart of the Old Town.

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All that I retain in my head of the house in town is the wallpaper with Teddy bears in my old room.

NEWYORKER: Gravel

With Hotel Missoni, the eponymous Italian fashion house has established a style icon in the heart of the Old Town: modernist architecture, impeccable staff and very comfortable bedrooms.

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Separated from her second husband, with a 22-year-old son in his final year of college, she splits her time between a Manhattan town house and a cabin she rents in rural Montana.

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