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East side of the Place des Vosges in Paris, one of the earliest examples of terraced housing. A terrace, terraced house (), or townhouse [a] is a type of medium-density housing which first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls.
Project Row Houses. Project Row Houses is a development in the Third Ward area of Houston, Texas. Project Row Houses includes a group of shotgun houses restored in the 1990s. [2] Eight houses serve as studios for visiting artists. [3] Those houses are art studios for art related to African-American themes. A row behind the art studio houses ...
Cooper Avenue Row Historic District is a national historic district in Glendale, Queens, New York. It includes seven contributing buildings built in 1915. They consist of two story, flat front brick rowhouse dwellings with one apartment per floor. They are constructed of yellow brick with burnt orange brick details.
By Bud Dietrich, AIA From the early 19th century through the early 20th, America's cities grew at a rapid pace. Immigrants from other countries as well as a migration from farms to city centers ...
A modest shotgun house in New Orleans's Bayou Saint John neighborhood shortly after Hurricane Katrina. Shotgun houses consist of three to five rooms in a row with no hallways and have a narrow, rectangular structure. Shotgun house in the Fifth Ward neighborhood of Houston, Texas, 1973, as pictured in a photo by Danny Lyon.
Strivers Row is the name for Penguin Random House publishing imprint created to elevate African-American writers. [13] [14] One of the chapters of Colson Whitehead's 2001 novel John Henry Days is set on Striver's Row in the early 1940s. Striver's Row, A Novel (2006) by Kevin Baker. This is the third book in Baker's trilogy of historical novels ...
Colonnade Row, also known as LaGrange Terrace, is a group of 1830s row houses on present-day Lafayette Street in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. They are believed to have been built by Seth Geer, although the project has been attributed to a number of other architects.
Glencoe–Auburn Hotel and Glencoe–Auburn Place Row Houses was a registered historic district in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 2003. It contained 54 contributing buildings. The complex was originally constructed between 1884 and 1891, by a Jethro Mitchell.