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Category: Row House History

Row House of the Week – Wooden Row House
Wooden sided row houses are fairly rare. This lovely example is in Center City, Philadelphia. This home has been recently painted. Previously, it was bright

The Diverse Row House: Queen Anne Rows in Chicago
Although many people, especially in America, still think of row homes as simple, two-story, brick homes with little personality —Fooey! — I’ve discovered an amazing
The Philadelphia Rowhouse Manual
My professor of architecture at CUNY Queens College once told me that there are cities of houses and cities of apartments. He was speaking of

The Philadelphia Row House: America’s First Row House
There are houses attached in a row and there are row houses. For our purposes, at The Urban Row House, we treat all houses that