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When the family lived in the unrenovated house, Bridget says they could really only entertain in the backyard.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2022

As sirens and flashing lights permeate her unrenovated sanctuary, she leaves lengthy, confessional voice-mail messages for her pharmacy that Blanche DuBois might find ludicrously over-the-top.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2022

That outside-of-time quality binds together many of his favorite things, from Rimbaud’s “Illuminations” to a blessedly unrenovated New Orleans music hall.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2019

In 1989, he and his wife, the artist Joanne Howard, bought an unrenovated 1870 Victorian on a ½-acre in Nyack for $1.22 million, according to public records.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2015

The Hôtel de la Garonne was in a small unrenovated street in which the cobble-stones of old Paris still flourished, lying between the Avenue de l'Opéra and the Place de la Bourse.

From The Tragic Muse by James, Henry