What seperates a rowhome from a building?

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by pwduvall

There are plenty of big crappy rowhomes available in West Baltimore available for the same price as small crappy rowhomes in East Baltimore. The small East Baltimore rowhomes will be rehabbed for the most part five years from now but West Baltimore will be a much tougher job because it lacks East Baltimore's excellent highway connections and access to nearby institutions like the Johns Hopkins hospitals. All of that adds up to why small crappy East Baltimore rowhouses are golden these days.

The odd part is that the larger houses are much less attractive for rehab since they cost so much more to rehab and don't sell for much more. Also, be careful when looking at listing prices. Most of the very low priced homes are auction listings showing up at the minimum bid price. Nobody is getting anyplace that is occupiable for less than $10K. Part of being crappy is being not fit to live in by any standard.

Having never been decided to let Google take me to East and West Baltimore.


Not bad, can see possibilities: Can an Innovation District Revitalize West Baltimore? | Citizens Planning and Housing Association, Inc.


Ditto: https://nextcity.org/features/view/w...d-tech-economy




Heck no: https://www.quora.com/Is-Baltimore-r...ed-in-The-Wire


Maybe: Baltimore City's Past Present and Future: Greater Upton:From the Ground Up


Tear it down and start over: Baltimore City's Past Present and Future: Greater Upton:From the Ground Up

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by BuildingLover

Do you even have these dwellings where you live?

What type of dwellings?

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by kapikap

Maybe there is too much confusion between brownstone,limestone,4 family rowhouses and town house.

A townhouse would be a 1 family 3 bedroom.

Brownstones/ limestone are generally 3 family and another in the basement/cellar. Housing 4 families. Works awesome if the 4 families are related.

Then there is the 4 family row house broken up into an 8 family (double) All with a hidden apartment /attic . Feels like a tenement. railroad layout.

Philly / baltimore/DC are not set up like ny/NJ.
South of the tristate are all mostly 1 family.

Have already said; brownstone, limestone or whatever mean nothing per se. They are just the building materials used for the façade and thus take on a life of their own when describing type of home.


A row house, is a row house, is a row house. You can substitute "terraced", or "town house" if you like but in the end we're talking about the same things; buildings that share common walls.