frame house

noun

a house constructed with a skeleton framework of timber, as the ordinary wooden house.

frame house

First recorded in 1545–55

Pretty soon the mansion was more than 300 feet long, the longest frame house in the country.

As a boy, he lived in a wood-frame house, with a cow in the back, freshly shot bird for dinner, and homemade soap for the bath.

Our two-story wooden-frame house, 30-years-old, is on the west side of Christchurch.

In an obscure alley, in the town of Homestead, there stands a one-story frame house, looking old and forlorn.

Such a frame house usually measured one room deep and two rooms wide or two rooms deep and a passage-way wide.

Another night when we was up at the head of the island, just before daylight, here comes a frame-house down, on the west side.

It was a two-story frame house, kept in a fairly tidy condition.

He kept a tavern for many years in a white frame house opposite the court house, and near the “Fulton.”

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