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A dormitory (originated from the Latin word dormitorium, often abbreviated to dorm), also known as a hall of residence or a residence hall (often abbreviated to halls), is a building primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people such as boarding school, high school, college or university students. In some countries, it can also refer to a room containing several beds accommodating people. (Full article...)

• ... that you can see the sea from every apartment in Arlington House, Margate?
• ... that The Sims 2: Apartment Life is not about apartment life?
• ... that the Felix M. Warburg House was converted into the Jewish Museum after nearly being replaced by apartments?
• ... that a conversion plan led to the "Battle of the Century"?
• ... that Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew and his son Lee Hsien Loong donated the "unsolicited discounts" from their controversial purchase of condominium units to charity?
• ... that residents at Alterlaa, a housing complex in Vienna, have large concrete planters in which plants can be grown?
• ... that entrepreneur Ian Schrager paid a record $9 million for two apartments at the Majestic in New York City, but he never lived there?
• ... that the Sofia, a condominium building in New York City, was originally a parking garage?

... that Chicago mayor Jane Byrne moved into the notoriously miserable Cabrini–Green housing project in 1981?

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