tract house
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tract house
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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“The following year, in 1961, we moved to a four-bedroom, white tract house with green trim in Thousand Oaks,” Russell said.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026
We lived in a three-bedroom tract house that looked like all the others on our street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
The ranch-style tract house was built in 1958 and had a kitchen that had been updated sometime in the 1990s, and Evans wanted to lean into its midcentury bones.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
Using a tract house as art object, of course, immediately calls to mind the late Mike Kelley’s “Mobile Homestead” behind the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 22, 2018
Out of curiosity, columnist Steve Lopez looked up the value of a two-story tract house he bought in a middle-class San Jose neighborhood back in 1983 for about $130,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2017
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