Was his father actually born in that great old falling-down house, and did he really once swim in this deadly lake?

The realtor is letting you live in a falling-down house at the end of a partially submerged road, and it's on the grounds of an old Indian summer camp.

The same is true of elderly Miss Eloise Bannister and the handyman she definitely does not want to rent her falling-down house to in "Housekeeping."

He sets up a tripwire by the falling-down house where the street-children who love him live.

Since then, the orchard has sat, overgrown, with its falling-down house, an investment, an eventual housing development.

Ten acres of burned-down trees and weeds and a falling-down house?

"We have known les maisons magnifiques for the whites in the cities, and the falling-down houses for the Negroes."

Maybe - There was a flurry of movement on the long grassy descent behind the row of falling-down houses.

She said not a word about what had passed between them in this falling-down house.

No tourist immured himself in a falling-down house in the middle of nowhere, no matter how beautiful it was.