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I love rowhouses, and I'm trying to make a list of every city where they appear in significant numbers.
Rowhouses are by far most common in Pennsylvania. Not just in Philadelphia (which has more than any other city), and Pittsburgh, but most of the smaller cities as well. They are a notable part of the Lehigh Valley (Easton, Bethlehem, Allentown), and Pennsylvania Dutch Country (Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lebanon, York), as well as the cities of Redding, Pottsville, and Chester. The only portions of the state they are absent from are the Wyoming Valley and rural Western Pennsylvania.
Further south, Wilmington, DE has a fair amount. Baltimore is second to Philly's title, and Annapolis has some great ones. The old cities in Western Maryland (Frederick, Hagerstown, and Cumberland) all have a fair share as well.
DC of course has a large number, as do portions of Arlington and Alexandria. Richmond has them in the Fan District. Old, coastal southern cities like Charleston, Savannah, and especially New Orleans have their share.
Turning north, New York City has a great number of rowhouse neighborhoods. I am generally unaware of how prevalent they are in the rest of the state, or New Jersey (outside of Camden), but I think they are rare in both cases. I've spent a lot of my life in New England, and they are almost absent outside of Boston.
I really have little knowledge of the cities of the midwest. I know there are some in Chicago (Lincoln Park). I have heard they are rare in Cleveland, but common in Cincinnati. Louisville has some in their victorian district. I've heard Saint Louis has a smattering.
San Francisco is the only place I'm aware with rowhouses in the West.
New York State doesn't have that many row houses outside New York City, but Albany and Troy both have small clusters of row houses in their cores. Some are in a brownstone style like NYC. A few other upstate cities (Syracuse and Buffalo, maybe some more) have a few streets of them. Across the Hudson River, Hoboken and Jersey City have rowhouses similar to NYC. Probably some in a few other streets in North Jersey.
However, in Toronto the Bay & Gable house is more common, which are usually 2-3 but sometimes more houses attached together with a substantial setback, Hamilton has some of these too.
Within Canada I would say that it's just Quebec City and St John's whose cores are dominated by attached, mostly single family homes with little to no front setback.
1. I'm not interested in isolated stands of rowhouses. As nei is I'm sure aware, Northampton, MA has a few brick rowhouses itself. That doesn't make it a "rowhouse city." Essentially, there needs to be one or more identifiable rowhouse "neighborhoods."
2. Similarly, there probably needs to be some lower limit set on population. For example, while the vast majority of row houses in the Pittsburgh area are in Pittsburgh itself, some are found in independently-incorporated boroughs outside the city, including Millvale, Etna, and Sharpsburg. All three have populations of around 3,500, and are effectively (in terms of both demographics and aesthetics), neighborhoods of Pittsburgh itself. I'd say the limit is nothing under around 20,000 people.
1. I'm not interested in isolated stands of rowhouses. As nei is I'm sure aware, Northampton, MA has a few brick rowhouses itself. That doesn't make it a "rowhouse city." Essentially, there needs to be one or more identifiable rowhouse "neighborhoods."
Yes.
Western Massachusetts, and Massachusetts has isolated blocks of attached housing. Some could mistaken for row houses. Could add streetviews, but they're against your house rules.
There's lots of them in the University District of Columbus OH. My aunt went to school there in the 80s. She has some interesting photos of her old place showing a block of rowhouses facing another block of rowhouses across a courtyard. Which is a rare layout because they usually face the street.
Rowhouses are primarily a Mid-Atlantic phenomenon; start with the three obvious ones in Philly, Baltimore and DC, and then include Wilmington, Richmond, Trenton, etc. Newark/NYC might be considered, but these are more of a "brownstone" variety, which are slightly different; you can also find some of these brownstone types in Albany/Schenectady/Troy, NY..
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