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My home city of Melbourne has the largest collection of Victorian Filigree architecture in the world, outpacing both Paris and New Orleans. The boom time of the 1880's when Melbourne was one of the wealthiest cities in the world thanks to the huge gold rush brought in some amazing public and private building's which thankfully are still with us today.
My vote goes to DC. DC has a greater diversity of rowhomes, and its rowhomes, on average, are more beautiful than what you find in Philly or Boston. For example, in Boston, you may see this:
But in DC, the vast majority of the housing stock seems to be pretty high quality. Even the not-so-great rowhouses could look pretty good with the right owners. There are so many different types of rowhouses in DC and they are all beautiful.
This tends to be the style of the majority of rowhomes in DC. Of course, there are some crappy ones, but those are the exceptions rather than the rule. NYC has some nice brownstones, but they're mostly monochromatic (especially in Harlem...Brooklyn's more interesting). DC, on the other hand, has a few rows of the classic-looking Brooklyn brownstones, but many more colorful and architecurally distinct rowhouses. Baltimore's housing stock is not bad, but it doesn't have DC's diversity. Philly just doesn't have a good housing stock. For every beautiful rowhouse you see in Old City, there are 4,000 hideous homes in the Northeast.
I don't know why you're talking down about the shingled row homes, but whatever. You showed one example of the South End and then a shingle-style (which you don't find pretty much anywhere else)...by the way, you definitely don't see more shingled row homes in the city of Boston than you do brick rowhomes. Shingled row homes are usually found exclusively in Southie and Charlestown (and Cambridge across the river), while there are brick row homes in Southie, the South End, North End, Charlestown, Beacon Hill, Back Bay, Fenway, Allston-Brighton, Brookline, etc. There is a lot of shingle-style homes around the Boston area, but they're triple-deckers and those aren't row homes.
So as you can see, there are several different types of red brick/stone styles in Boston and there definitely isn't more shingled row homes.
I re-read my post and I definitely did not talk down about shingled-row homes. I talked down about Philadelphia's housing stock, which is my prerogative since I was born and raised in the city. I posted the pictures of Boston's tripledeckers to show the contrast in styles. Then I stated that Boston's homes, on average, are not as beautiful as DC's homes, on average. This is my opinion. And a tripledecker that is connected to other houses on both sides is a rowhouse. How's that any different from a brownstone, aside from the materials the building's made of?
In the city of Boston, there are far more tripledeckers than brick rowhomes. My ultimate point is that the brick rowhomes in Boston may account for maybe 10% (or less) of the city's housing stock, where brick rowhomes of various styles probably account for 50-60% of single family dwellings in DC. What you find in Beacon Hill and the North End are definitely the exceptions, not the rule. In DC, however, the Victorian rowhome is more the rule than the exception.
The overwhelming majority of Bostonians (meaning people living in Eastie, Roxbury, JP, Dorchester, Mattapan, and Charlestown) do not live in anything close to a brick rowhouse. All of those areas are dominated by vinyl-siding and tripledeckers. In DC, you find a fair number of people, including poor people and the elderly, that occupy Victorian rowhouses.
I think nyc philly dc and san fran have the best row homes. you should've had it so that we could vote for more than 1
maybe boston too but I think there's a lot more triple deckers than row homes there.
I re-read my post and I definitely did not talk down about shingled-row homes. I talked down about Philadelphia's housing stock, which is my prerogative since I was born and raised in the city. I posted the pictures of Boston's tripledeckers to show the contrast in styles. Then I stated that Boston's homes, on average, are not as beautiful as DC's homes, on average. This is my opinion. And a tripledecker that is connected to other houses on both sides is a rowhouse. How's that any different from a brownstone, aside from the materials the building's made of?
In the city of Boston, there are far more tripledeckers than brick rowhomes. My ultimate point is that the brick rowhomes in Boston may account for maybe 10% (or less) of the city's housing stock, where brick rowhomes of various styles probably account for 50-60% of single family dwellings in DC. What you find in Beacon Hill and the North End are definitely the exceptions, not the rule. In DC, however, the Victorian rowhome is more the rule than the exception.
The overwhelming majority of Bostonians (meaning people living in Eastie, Roxbury, JP, Dorchester, Mattapan, and Charlestown) do not live in anything close to a brick rowhouse. All of those areas are dominated by vinyl-siding and tripledeckers. In DC, you find a fair number of people, including poor people and the elderly, that occupy Victorian rowhouses.
That's the thing...what you showed is not a triple decker. Triple deckers are not row homes.
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