Row Houses: Chicago vs St Louis (state, largest, place, bigger) - City vs. City - City-Data Forum

urbanologist · 05-18-2013, 10:26 AM

Which city has more? Show some pictures if you can. Most Victorians? Most Brown Stones?

DC's Finest · 05-20-2013, 09:35 AM

Nice pics! St. Louis looks a lot like certain parts of Baltimore.

urbanologist · 05-20-2013, 09:54 AM

Yeah, nice photos. My guess is that St Louis would have more because at on time it was a larger city than Chicago and is an older.

PA Born · 05-20-2013, 09:59 AM

St. Louis has a vastly higher proportion than Chicago, that's for sure.

And yes, St. Louis was a bigger city back in the 19th century, so it makes sense.

urbanologist · 05-20-2013, 10:14 AM

I didn't realize St Louis was once the 4th largest, interesting. There were probably a lot more row houses (before some were demolished) back then in such a small compact area of only 61 square miles. In 1950 the city peaked at 856,796 while Chicago peaked at around 3,620,962.

1870 census:

1 New York city, NY *.............942,292
2 Philadelphia city, PA..............674,022
3 Brooklyn city, NY *...............396,099
4 St. Louis city, MO.................310,864
5 Chicago city, IL....................298,977

source: http://www.census.gov/population/www...0027/tab10.txt

cali3448893 · 05-20-2013, 02:10 PM

I like the pics, but seriously was it necessary for all those pics most people will look at the first 2 than scroll down past them, anyway the rules are too limit the pics to 6.

nashvols · 05-20-2013, 02:24 PM

A) a lot of those pictures are not brownstones, Victorians, or row houses. There are some great pics there, but many are not relevant to this discussion. Some of those are just big apartment buildings...

B) way too many pictures, Sonic. Leave some space for other people to comment or share pictures/links. As stated above, 6 pic limit. If you limit it to the ones that actually apply to the topic, I think it will work.

JuanHamez · 05-20-2013, 07:19 PM

Sorry! Didn't know the limit was 6 pics. I'll remember for the future. I made the picture list for another purpose and decided to repost the whole thing here for convenience.

marothisu · 05-20-2013, 07:33 PM

St. Louis probably does have a higher proportion of row homes (it's also a smaller city but older). Chicago still has some good ones.

http://media.rubloff.com/pics/realtor/15711/9297/

http://chicagoagentmagazine.com/wp-c...0/lakeview.jpg

http://cdn2.media.zp-cdn.com/392/Chi...215-dbb07a.jpg

http://images.frontdoor.com/FDOOR/ar.../row-house.jpg

(This ones are right near my place)
http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1383/3...5796e636_o.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zJpnTu57Ko...i-BRH-001b.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zJpnTu57Ko...i-MCD-012b.jpg

STLgasm · 05-20-2013, 07:35 PM

I have a hunch Chicago has more in sheer number, but St. Louis has more proportionally. Much of the near north and near south side of St. Louis is composed of rowhouses, although there are examples sprinkled all over the city. Not only does STL have a lot of rowhouses, but there is a great variety in age and style. Here are a few random samples (obviously this is just a tiny taste)...