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A tower house is a particular type of stone structure, built for defensive purposes as well as habitation.
Tower House, also known as Edgewater and Marsland-on-the-Potomac, is a historic home located near Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia. It was built in 1888, in the Italian Villa style. The house was remodeled to its present form in 1900-1901. It is a 2 1/2-story frame dwelling in a transitional Queen Anne- Colonial Revival style. It features a steeply pitched hipped roof and a prominent, semi-circular corner tower.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
A tower house is a tall fortified dwelling similar to the keep of a castle. See
- Tower houses in Britain and Ireland
- Tower houses in the Balkans
Tower House may also refer to:
- The tower of a tower castle
- The Tower House, Holland Park, London, England
- Tower House, Leeds, now renamed Tower North Central
- Tower House, Brighton, East Sussex, England
- Tower House School, Richmond upon Thames, London, England
- Tower House, beside God's House Tower, Southampton, England
- The Tower House, Lubenham, Leicestershire, England
- Tower House Fort Cochin, Kerala, India
- Horatio Tower House, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
- Lewis Tower House, Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA
- Tower House (Alexandria, Virginia), USA
The Tower House or Azuma Residence (塔の家 - Tō no ie) by Japanese architect Takamitsu Azuma was built in 1966 in a very small plot of land. The house was erected on a 20-square-meter plot of land and grows around the stairs six levels up to provide 65 square meters of living space. From the moment of its creation it was regarded as a symbol of living in a modern metropolis center.
Designed as a continual vertical room for the architect´s own family, the staircase appears as the most significant structure in the house´s interior. It connects the individual rooms, which are “piled” one on top of the other without any doors separating them.
The building has become a fascinating portrait of how Japan society has dealt with the urban and social changes in the last few decades.
“When completed it was the “skyscraper” of Jingumae, nowadays it is a miniature house”
Usage examples of "tower house".
Both Afra and Damia felt that a man of twenty-four would want to live nearer the city with all its possibilities of entertainment, though he would need to stay at Tower House until he'd found accommodations.