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I grew up in in Queens, and to be honest, the San Francisco homes pictured do not look to me like typical rowhouses either. Because of their rooflines, they look more like individual houses that were bumped up to each other.
In Queens, rowhouses usually have a more or less solid front with the neighboring houses and most of the time, the roof of the house is flat.
I guess we just have different definitions of what makes a rowhome. I always thought that as long as the houses were touching, it was more or less a rowhome. For example, I would consider the homes on this street in DC to be rowhomes, but I guess they may not be since the rooflines, front facades, and general style of the individual units vary?
Also, I wonder if the two houses on the left side of this streetview would be considered rowhouses or single family homes? Clearly they aren't attached to each other, but the roofline, front facades, and sizes are identical and there really is no significant different in the pedestrian experience between walking by these homes and walking by true rowhomes.
I guess we just have different definitions of what makes a rowhome. I always thought that as long as the houses were touching, it was more or less a rowhome. For example, I would consider the homes on this street in DC to be rowhomes, but I guess they may not be since the rooflines, front facades, and general style of the individual units vary?
Also, I wonder if the two houses on the left side of this streetview would be considered rowhouses or single family homes? Clearly they aren't attached to each other, but the roofline, front facades, and sizes are identical and there really is no significant different in the pedestrian experience between walking by these homes and walking by true rowhomes.
I think those last ones would be considered brownstone apartment buildings. I am assuming (unless the residents are filthy rich) that there are more than one tenant per separated building.
I think those last ones would be considered brownstone apartment buildings. I am assuming (unless the residents are filthy rich) that there are more than one tenant per separated building.
Well that is in Mount Vernon, which at one time was the wealthiest neighborhood in Baltimore, so more than likely they were originally built as single occupancy residences, even if they have since been divided up into apartments.
I guess we just have different definitions of what makes a rowhome. I always thought that as long as the houses were touching, it was more or less a rowhome.
No, it's just that people used to east coast cities assume row homes have a solid front with no gaps. Looking at the front, I wouldn't have realized the San Francisco homes were connected in the back, I thought they were not touching and so not real row homes.
That's not what I said. But thanks for the links (which are cool, and mostly just reinforce what I did actually say).
If your point was that most of the city does not look like the painted ladies, then yes you are correct. A lot of the NE and NW parts of the city do look like that though.
I guess we just have different definitions of what makes a rowhome. I always thought that as long as the houses were touching, it was more or less a rowhome. For example, I would consider the homes on this street in DC to be rowhomes, but I guess they may not be since the rooflines, front facades, and general style of the individual units vary?
Also, I wonder if the two houses on the left side of this streetview would be considered rowhouses or single family homes? Clearly they aren't attached to each other, but the roofline, front facades, and sizes are identical and there really is no significant different in the pedestrian experience between walking by these homes and walking by true rowhomes.
A rowhome shares walls with its neighbors. If the houses in the picture in question do in fact share walls with their neighbors then they are rowhomes. If they do not then they are not.
That's the way I've always defined it.
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