Row Houses

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The American companion to the Terraced Houses/Terraced Streets thread.

My favorite part of the train journey from NY to DC is passing through Baltimore, with all of its multi-colored row houses.

Do you live in a row house? Where are your favorite row houses?

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 26 October 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

per here...

The English Terrace Row, 20 - 38 W. 10th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, first row houses built (1856-1858) without the high Dutch "stoop"; design attributed to James Renwick, Jr. (graduate of Columbia College and designer of, among other things, the Smithsonian castle, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Grace Church in the village (where high school gabbneb sang with chorus once a year), and of course the Renwick gallery)

also, row houses

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 26 October 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

so if it has a stoop, it's not a row house? Many of the row houses on my block (except mine, which is a duplex Queen Anne - is that the right term?) have stoops, although some don't. I think it's the variations on the same basic pattern that make me like my block so much.

― hstencil, Sunday, 26 October 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

my hood:
http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd0923/alamo-square-postcard-row-22.3.jpg

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

whoops, that's very big. the eurogoon playing solofooty in the foreground i've never seen.

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the oddest thing I've ever seen.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not exactly sure how to define a row house. I think the (lack of) stoop is a defining variable.

I had the same problem with terrace houses: I came to my own (mis)conlusion that if it had a bay (bow) window, it was a town house, not a terrace house.

For row houses, my faulty logic goes like this: If it is not in Baltimore, it is not a row house.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

the amtrak b/w NYC and Baltimore isn't the best way to see them, but Philadelphia is also known for its rowhouses. i will be arsed to get a picture of them sometime today.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

somewhere in philly's historical district (or olde city):

http://www.computer-chair-traveler.org/Pictures/Philadelphia_historic_24.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

west spruce street, w. philly circa 1907:

http://www.uchs.net/Postcards/westspruce.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

carmac street:

http://www.gophila.com/photos/images/large/imgA024.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

delancey street, off rittenhouse square:

http://www.gophila.com/photos/images/large/imgA023.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I do believe they have row houses in Soulard (St. Louis) where I hope to live in a year:

http://stlouis.missouri.org/housing/citylife/phototour/22211th.jpg

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

what's the difference between a row house and a townhouse?

― hstencil, Monday, 27 October 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i lived for a few years in a poorly-built brand-new row house in chicago. the porch collapsed after a few months.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 27 October 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

what's the difference between a row house and a townhouse?

I'm not sure, technically, though perception-wise, I would say a couple hundred thousand dollars at least.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 27 October 2003 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

this seems pretty arbitrary. What we need is an architect!

― hstencil, Monday, 27 October 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Or a dictionary :)

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 27 October 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

row house
n.
One of a series of houses, often of similar or identical design, situated side by side and joined by common walls.

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own·house or town house
n.
A residence in a city.
A row house, especially a fashionable one.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 27 October 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

or a preservationist.

― hstencil, Monday, 27 October 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Just as I suspected, a town house is merely a trumped up row house. Strange though, no mention of stoops and windows. So Tad's pics are of town houses, then?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 27 October 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

There should be a thread about row houses: houses where rows take place. Like mine.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 27 October 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

four weeks pass...

For the row-house afficianado in your life: Bricks and Browstones

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

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