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Rooms are decorated with midcentury-modern overtones, quirky art like Owen Marshall’s Unremarkable Staircase text installations in stairwells, and custom platform beds.
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Heather Greenwood Davis, AFAR Media, 16 July 2025
What works to get people sleeping in homes, out of stairwells?
—Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Using the stairs may be great for exercise, but crimes frequently occur in isolated stairwells.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 24 June 2025
The court documents, filed June 19, describe stairwells with feces and urine, a broken elevator and a persistent violent crime problem outside the property.
—Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 20 June 2025
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Heather Greenwood Davis, AFAR Media, 16 July 2025
What works to get people sleeping in homes, out of stairwells?
—Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Using the stairs may be great for exercise, but crimes frequently occur in isolated stairwells.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 24 June 2025
The court documents, filed June 19, describe stairwells with feces and urine, a broken elevator and a persistent violent crime problem outside the property.
—Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 20 June 2025
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“Stairwell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stairwell. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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stairwell
noun
stair·well
-ˌwel 
: a vertical shaft in which stairs are located
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