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[[Merriam-Webster]] defines a garden apartment in [[American English]] as "a multiple-unit low-rise dwelling having considerable lawn or garden space."<ref>{{cite web |title=Garden apartment |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garden%20apartment |website=Merriam-Webster Dictionary |access-date=29 August 2018}}</ref> The apartment buildings are often arranged around courtyards that are open at one end. Such a garden apartment shares some characteristics of a [[townhouse]]: each apartment has its own building entrance, or shares that entrance via a staircase and lobby that adjoins other units immediately above and/or below it. Unlike a townhouse, each apartment occupies only one level. Such garden apartment buildings are almost never more than three stories high, since they typically lack [[elevator]]s. However, the first "[https://www.listproperties.com/new-york-ny garden apartment]" buildings in New York, USA, built in the early 1900s, were constructed five stories high.<ref>[http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/garden_apartments/ New York City Garden Apartments] retrieved 17 October 2009</ref><ref>Hogan, Meghan. [http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/story-of-the-week/2006/eden-in-the-city.html Eden in the City] ''Preservation Magazine'' online, 2006-09-22. Article on preservation of early United States garden apartment buildings.</ref> Some garden apartment buildings place a one-car garage under each apartment. The interior grounds are often landscaped.