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You do not find Chicago flats in Hartford.
You have lost all credibility.
Fake news.
Bye.
Uhhh.. yea you do. Plenty of them. They’re not called “Chicago three flats” but they’re 3 family, 3 story brick free standing apartments. It’s virtually the same. There’s many of them all over Hartford. I’d have no reason to pick Hartford and make that up...
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Are these Chicago three flats? These are Hartford three deckers in brick. Different architectural treatments but same basic idea of a building designed to look somewhat like an urban single-family house of the period but in fact having three separate apartments one on top of the other. The Chicago houses have hardly any space in between; they're more like single family townhouses. The Hartford houses are spaced farther apart and set farther back from the street, as you'd expect in a far smaller city. I guess the Chicago three flats can be more upmarket than the three deckers of New England.
BostonBornMassMade sure won this thread..and I haven't looked at the poll results yet but 'other' must be dominating given that neither SF nor Boston were included, lol.
Are these Chicago three flats? These are Hartford three deckers in brick. Different architectural treatments but same basic idea of a building designed to look somewhat like an urban single-family house of the period but in fact having three separate apartments one on top of the other. The Chicago houses have hardly any space in between; they're more like single family townhouses. The Hartford houses are spaced farther apart and set farther back from the street, as you'd expect in a far smaller city. I guess the Chicago three flats can be more upmarket than the three deckers of New England.
Just turned around and saw the graffiti on the dumpster. Yikes
Many many people know about Boston triple deckers-they’re all over Hollywood. I hear the argument at San Francisco but you can also find that architecture palm trees and colorful builds around the bay and to a lesser extent in California in general and other Mediterranean/tropical climates.
I think SF is very unique but architecturally Boston triple decker is pretty much a lock, add in the snow the winding roads and stone walls and it’s very unique especially compared to other northeastern cold climate cities.
If Boston isn’t #1 (which I said was my opinion), it would have to be #2 or at worst #4 behind NOLA or NYC
Boston is famous for this and this. People come to see streets like these. They sure don't come to see this or this but if asked about the image I guess people would say Oh, that's Boston. It's the buildings with the porches, the narrow, concentrated space; hills, odd angles.
But on the recognizability scale for vernacular domestic architecture, San Francisco is in a class by itself or, at least, as familiar as the brownstones of New York.
Boston is famous for this and this. People come to see streets like these. They sure don't come to see this or this but if asked about the image I guess people would say Oh, that's Boston. It's the buildings with the porches, the narrow, concentrated space; hills, odd angles.
But on the recognizability scale for vernacular domestic architecture, San Francisco is in a class by itself or, at least, as familiar as the brownstones of New York.
Good synopsis. To be fair, every city has large swaths of standard housing that isn't considered as architecturally "prized." Neighborhoods like Park Slope, Back Bay and Nob Hill have outsized influence on their city's image, but they're by-and-large exceptional.
Also, architecturally "valued" neighborhoods tend to be more distinguishable due to their more outsized image, but that doesn't make them the most objectively unique--those are two different characteristics.
The most unique city at Street level has to be SF and one can even argue Los Angeles due to the freeways always being jam packed like the apocalypse...
I don't think no other city has a mountain and ocean in it's view like Los Angeles does,So in that sense it's the most unique in my opinion.
Also San Francisco has those steep hills that you for sure won't see anywhere else in the country.
Now I would've said NYC but Chicago and NYC can sometimes be confused for each other in the Downtown area.
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