telescope house

Noun

 * 1) A house with multiple extensions connected serially, decreasing in size.
 * 2) * 1940, Maryland Writers' Project, Maryland, a Guide to the Old Line State (Federal Works Agency, 1940)
 * The need for space to house an increasing family, or an increasing prosperity, also resulted in a type of building Marylanders call a ‘telescope house.’
 * 1) * 1978,, , Chapter "Refuge"
 * As they passed beneath Peace Cliff he observed Mr. Steed looking with some interest at the telescope house, then quickly looking away, but he attached no significance to the incident.
 * 1) * 2002, 100 Of the World's Best Houses (Images Publishing, 2002) p. 326
 * The “telescope house” was common to eastern Pennsylvania, especially in the utopian communities that gathered there more than a century ago.