Type of building often seen in Baltimore

Usage examples of brownstone.

He landed on hands and knees in the dark areaway in front of the brownstone house.

He and his wife, a Russian emigree named Larissa Volokhonsky, had an apartment on the fourth floor of a brownstone on West 107th Street.

Seated on the top step of the brownstone stoop were Oakmoss and Leafdrop Brown, with Gabi between them.

Back to her brownstone, an explanatory chat with her mum, a silent, grateful handclasp from her dad, a game of checkers with her little brother, and, as I took my leave, a royal knee-trembler in the rumpus-room.

Cali cartel off the roof of that fancy brownstone apartment house, and he had to admit that Schaefer had been just a bit over the line, doing that.

Luther Slyke stepped into the vestibule of a five-story brownstone just off the corner of East Twelfth Street.

Now it was colorless, beautiful in a skeletal way, the bandshell empty, the fountain turned off for the winter, the brownstone city hall capped by white snow.

Silent brownstones rose on either side, and the wind sent trash along the gutters with a dry, skittery sound.

Here it was more thickly settled, newer brownstones abutting old wood-and-frame structures.

It was a little hole-in-the-wall of black-painted brick, shoehorned between brownstones that seemed to sag under the weight of innumerable layers of graffiti.

Across the East River, lights were coming on in the low brownstones of Brooklyn.

And the only way to get to those was to buy the land, tear down the brownstones above, and dig a foundation for a new building.

Ulster Scarlett brownstone on Fifty-fourth Street was being repainted and sandblasted.

It was a place where cooking utensils were in demand, and title-deeds to brownstone fronts were not.

Beyond, a row of Lower East Side brownstones stood starkly in the brilliant afternoon light.