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
It’s Spring in Philly
The city is thawing out around us here in Philadelphia. After sleeping snuggly in their rows during the cold winter, our row houses are waking

Canvas Floor Cloths for Every Room
What happens when you want to cover your hardwood floor with something decorative but you don’t want to use a rug? A floor cloth is

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

The Virtues of Age
By Robert A. Seeley This article was first published in Robert Seeley’s weblog, Surviving the Future, Friday, May 9, 2008, and appears here with his

Creating Country Tranquility in a 1908 Ridgewood Row House
I am so excited to introduce Kermit and Azadeh Westergaard. With all the living choices in New York City, they’ve chosen to settle into a