(Oxford English Dictionary)
brown-stone, (a) (see quot. 1875); (b) U.S., one or other variety of a dark-brown sandstone used for building; also ellipt., a house built of brown-stone, and attrib. and transf., designating the well-to-do;
[1836 Knickerbocker VIII. 390 His poor remains..in one corner.. a brown stone at his head and foot.] 1858 Spirit of Times 13 Feb. 377/2 A solid substantial *brown-stone front house. 1865 'G. HAMILTON' New Atmosphere 32 The brown-stone friends are shocked and scandalized.
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Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908 [Author Page]
Fudge doings: Being Tony Fudge's Record of the Same. In Forty Chapters. By Ik. Marvel (1855) 385Kb
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...will make them nabobs. Future years shall behold them in brown-stone houses upon (who knows?) Madison or Union Square, with native...
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...world-wise metropolis, reared after the newest mode of the newest brown-stone houses, with whom fashion is godliness, and gaucherie, sin; and...
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Bennett, Emerson, 1822-1905 [Author Page]
Ellen Norbury; or, The Adventures of an Orphan. (1855) 655Kb
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T. B. PETERSON'S WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Cheap Book, Magazine, Newspaper, Publishing and Bookselling Establishment, is at No. 102 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. [Durable URL for this text]
...public, that he has removed to the new and spacious BROWN STONE BUILDING, NO. 102 CHESTNUT STREET, just completed by the...
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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 [Author Page]
Daisy's Necklace: and What Came of It. (A Literary Episode.) (1857) 261Kb
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...them all was a massive iron railing. The brick and brown-stone houses on Waverly Place and Fourth-street had long been removed,...