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25-537: Emerson Place is a historic townhouse complex located at Watertown in Jefferson County, New York . It was built in 1904 and is a two-story, flat-roofed, brick, nearly symmetrical set of eleven units in the Colonial Revival style. The long facade of the structure is articulated by a series of 3 two-story, projecting, three-sided bay windows; one at each end and a larger one near the center. It

50-838: A large living space, often with servants' quarters. The small footprint of the townhouse allows it to be within walking or mass-transit distance of business and industrial areas of the city, yet luxurious enough for wealthy residents of the city. Townhouses are expensive where detached single-family houses are uncommon, such as in New York City , Chicago , Boston , Philadelphia , Montreal , Washington, D.C. , and San Francisco . Rowhouses are similar and consist of several adjacent, uniform units originally found in older, pre-automobile urban areas such as Baltimore , Philadelphia, Richmond, Virginia , Charleston, South Carolina , Savannah, Georgia and New Orleans , but now found in lower-cost housing developments in suburbs as well. A rowhouse

75-474: A record in Asia, and The Beverly Hills , which consists of multiple rows of townhouses with some units as large as 11,000 square feet (1,000 m ). Commonly in the suburbs of major cities, an old house on a large block of land is demolished and replaced by a short row of townhouses, built 'end on' to the street for added privacy. Brownstone Brownstone is a brown Triassic – Jurassic sandstone that

100-676: A residence known as the Quaker Mill House. Brownstone was prized by tombstone carvers in southern New England and the Mid Atlantic region during the Colonial era. Table-type memorials in particular were often carved out of brownstone as well as regular headstones. Especially valued for being easy to carve, those same characteristics often resulted in stones being less durable and prone to heavy erosion and wear over time, especially when compared to slate or schist graves of

125-531: Is a "Greystone Belt" in Chicago, with large numbers of such structures located in the south and northwest quadrants of the city. It is estimated that around 30,000 of Chicago's greystones built between 1890 and 1930 are still standing. Brownstone, also known as freestone because it can be cut freely in any direction, was used by early Pennsylvanian Quakers to construct stone mills and mill houses. In central Pennsylvania, some 1700s-era structures survive, including

150-558: Is known for its Victorian brownstone homes – considered some of the best-preserved examples of 19th-century urban design in the United States. Although some brownstones exist in Chicago, a similar residential form known as "greystones" is far more prevalent. A greystone is a type of residential structure that utilizes Indiana limestone for its facade , regardless of its overall architectural style. As in Brooklyn, there

175-685: Is the stoop , a steep staircase rising from the street to the entrance on what amounts to almost the second-floor level. This design was seen as hygienic at the time many were built, because the streets were so foul with animal waste. It has become fashionable to use the term "brownstone" to refer to almost any townhouse from a certain period, even though they may not have been built of brownstone. For example, many townhouses in Boerum Hill in Brooklyn are built of brick, but have concrete masonry cladding which resembles stone. There are also many brick townhouses that have brownstone-built stoops throughout

200-449: Is where there is a continuous roof and foundation, and a single wall divides adjacent townhouses, but some have a double wall with inches-wide air space in between on a common foundation. A rowhouse will generally be smaller and less luxurious than a dwelling called a townhouse. The name townhouse or townhome was later used to describe non-uniform units in suburban areas that are designed to mimic detached or semi-detached homes. Today,

225-544: The Apostle Islands was in great demand, with brownstone from Basswood Island being used in the construction of the first Milwaukee County Courthouse in the 1860s. Hummelstown brownstone is extremely popular along the East Coast of the United States, with numerous government buildings throughout West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, and Delaware being faced entirely with the stone, which comes from

250-498: The Brooklyn neighborhoods of Park Slope , Clinton Hill , Fort Greene , Cobble Hill , Carroll Gardens , Boerum Hill , Gowanus , Windsor Terrace , Prospect Heights , Crown Heights , Brooklyn Heights , Bedford Stuyvesant , and Sunset Park . Smaller concentrations exist in parts of Bay Ridge , Williamsburg , Bushwick , Greenpoint , and Prospect Lefferts Gardens . Brownstones are also scattered throughout Manhattan from

275-505: The Duke of Norfolk owned Arundel Castle in the country, while his London house, Norfolk House , was a terraced house in St James's Square over 100 feet (30 m) wide. In the United States and Canada, a townhouse has two connotations. The older predates the automobile and denotes a house on a small footprint in a city, but because of its multiple floors (sometimes six or more), it has

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300-919: The Lower East Side to Washington Heights , with notable concentrations in the Upper West Side , Upper East Side , Harlem and East Harlem . In Queens and The Bronx, the historic districts of Long Island City and Mott Haven also host many brownstones. Brownstones also predominate in some Hudson County neighborhoods directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan, especially in Hoboken and around Van Vorst Park and Hamilton Park in Jersey City . New York City brownstones can cost several million dollars to purchase. A typical architectural detail of brownstones in and around New York City

325-703: The Hummelstown Quarry in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania , a small town outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Hummelstown Quarry is the largest provider of brownstone on the east coast. Typically, the stone was transported out of Hummelstown through the Brownstone and Middletown Railroad. Portland brownstone , also known as Connecticut River Brownstone, is also very popular. The stone from quarries located in Portland, Connecticut and nearby localities

350-581: The houses on the property are owned by the individual owners. In population-dense Asian cities dominated by high-rise residential apartment blocks, such as Hong Kong , townhouses in private housing developments remain almost exclusively populated by the very wealthy due to the rarity and relatively large sizes of the units. Prominent examples in Hong Kong include Severn 8, in which a 5,067-square-foot (470.7 m ) townhouse sold for HK$ 285 million (US$ 37 million) in 2008, or HK$ 57,000 (US$ 7,400) per square foot,

375-655: The outer boroughs. Such neighborhoods that consist of these homes are Borough Park , Dyker Heights , Bensonhurst , Bath Beach , Sunset Park , Kensington , Flatbush , Midwood , East New York , Cypress Hills in Brooklyn, Ridgewood , Glendale , Astoria , Woodhaven in Queens, and Longwood and Morrisania in the Bronx. The Rittenhouse Square and Fairmount neighborhoods of Philadelphia also include examples of brownstone architecture. Many of these homes have been converted into apartment buildings. Back Bay, Boston ,

400-586: The same time period. Brownstone began losing popularity among carvers during the first few decades of the 1800s owing to the rising popularity of marble though it continued to be used for obelisks and other grave monuments until much later. Brownstone used for headstones was usually quarried from the Connecticut River Valley and New Jersey, and many grave carvers especially in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey carved from it. Brownstone

425-748: The street or at least from the outside. They can be side by side in a row of three or more, in which case they are sometimes referred to as rowhouses . A townhouse in a group of two could be referred to as a townhouse, but in Canada and the US, it is typically called a semi-detached home and in some areas of western Canada, a half-duplex. In Canada, single-family dwellings, be they any type, such as single-family detached homes, apartments, mobile homes, or townhouses, for example, are split into two categories of ownership: Condominium townhouses, just like condominium apartments, are often referred to as condos , thus referring to

450-435: The term townhouse is used to describe units mimicking a detached home that are attached in a multi-unit complex. The distinction between living units called apartments and those called townhouses is that townhouses usually consist of multiple floors and have their own outside door as opposed to having only one level and/or having access via an interior corridor hallway or via an exterior balcony-style walkway (more common in

475-518: The type of ownership rather than to the type of dwelling. Since apartment-style condos are the most common, when someone refers to a condo , many erroneously assume that it must be an apartment-style dwelling and that only apartment-style dwellings can be condos. All types of dwellings can be condos, and this is therefore true of townhouses. A brownstone townhouse is a particular variety found in New York. In Asia, Australia, South Africa and Zimbabwe,

500-492: The usage of the term follows the North American sense. Townhouses are generally found in complexes. Large complexes often have high security, resort facilities such as swimming pools, gyms, parks and playground equipment. Typically, a townhouse has a strata title ; i.e., a type of title where the common property (landscaped area, public corridors, building structure, etc.) is owned by a corporation of individual owners and

525-487: The warmer climates). Another distinction is that in most areas of the US outside of the very largest cities, apartment refers to rental housing, and townhouse typically refers to an individually owned dwelling, with no other unit beneath or above although the term townhouse-style (rental) apartment is also heard for bi-level apartments. Townhouses can also be "stacked". Such homes have multiple units vertically (typically two), normally each with its own private entrance from

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550-480: The year. From the 18th century, landowners and their servants would move to a townhouse during the social season (when major balls took place). In the United Kingdom, most townhouses are terraced . Only a small minority of them, generally the largest, were detached, but even aristocrats whose country houses had grounds of hundreds or thousands of acres often lived in terraced houses in town. For example,

575-483: Was historically a popular building material . The term is also used in the United States and Canada to refer to a townhouse clad in this or any other aesthetically similar material. In the 19th century, Basswood Island , Wisconsin was the site of a quarry run by the Bass Island Brownstone Company , which operated from 1868 into the 1890s. The brownstone from this and other quarries in

600-517: Was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. This article about a historic property or district in Jefferson County , New York , that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places , is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Townhouse Historically, a townhouse was the city residence of a noble or wealthy family, who would own one or more country houses in which they lived for much of

625-702: Was used in a number of landmark buildings in Chicago , Boston , New York City , Philadelphia , New Haven , Hartford , Washington, D.C. , and Baltimore . Quarries from the Passaic Formation in northern New Jersey once supplied most of the brownstone used in New York City and New Jersey. Devonian aged sandstone is commonly used in Southern Wales . There are many brownstones throughout numerous NYC neighborhoods , especially in

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