What City has the Best Row Houses? SF? BOS? NYC? (quality, Boston)

[KodeBlue]

I'll post pics of Baltimore when I get a chance.

[Boston Shudra]

Originally Posted by rofl33cat

i thought that is was separate because everybody was showing only the extremely wealthy parts of boston, etc.

Whaaat?

I'm the only one who's posted about Boston and only one of my pictures showed the extremely welthy parts of Boston...

Here are some "even-further-from-Beacon-Hill" Boston pics:
(For the sake of socio-economic diversity)

(Mission Hill)
IMG_1675 by kz1000ps, on Flickr

Boston Chinatown by Dennis Ludlow, on Flickr

Fort Hill, Highland Park, Roxbury, July 17, 2010 by Gig Harmon, on Flickr

Apartment houses, Allston by Blake Gumprecht, on Flickr

Cambridge, MA by Sunset Noir, on Flickr

[RightonWalnut]

Awesome shots jm02!!!

Here are some of mine of West Philadelphia which I think are some of the best rows in the city:

[RightonWalnut]

Here are some of the modern rowhomes going up in Philly:

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[PurpleHaze1100]

BALTIMORE
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[JerseyGirl415]

Originally Posted by Summersm343

Here are some of the modern rowhomes going up in Philly:

Hmm, I like the historic ones much better. No doubt Philly has some great ones. I can see in some of those pics they're trying to add a historic element to the newer ones and it just isn't doing it for me.

[KodeBlue]

Thanks, PurpleHaze

[Duderino]

Originally Posted by JerseyGirl415

Hmm, I like the historic ones much better. No doubt Philly has some great ones. I can see in some of those pics they're trying to add a historic element to the newer ones and it just isn't doing it for me.

Yeah, some people just prefer historic architecture to modern, which is completely a matter of preference.

I actually like when neighborhoods have a nice contrast between historic and modern, but there does need to be sensitivity to the surrounding context (especially concerning garage-fronted townhomes, which thankfully seem to finally be on their way out in Philly).It's not always an easy task (or cheap), but with some imagination, new architecture can really augment existing historic architecture.

Here's a cool example from the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia:

Split Level House by Qb Design | HomeDSGN

[White Wine]

All of these cities have great rowhome collections, so this certainly isn't a diss to any of them............but in my opinion, there's just nothing like a Brooklyn brownstone. So I pick New York.

[Spade]

jm02