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- noun Plural form of
rowhouse .
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Examples
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They were uniformly called rowhouses with the possible exception of rowhouses in wealthier areas.
Phillies Zone 2011
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It consists of three rowhouses that were combined by a previous owner.
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Somewhere online is a great poster from Seattle back when we were tightening up our zoning laws that shows crowded run-down garageless rowhouses with a caption along the lines of "These could be your neighbors."
Energy, Transportation, and Land Use Patterns « PubliCola 2010
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Why not make them 2-packs per lot and have standard rowhouses?
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Imagine we take the 200k or so single family homes, demo them, and build 4 rowhouses each.
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—Philadelphia is the oldest of the nation's 10 largest cities, with 19 percent of its residents over age 60 — and lots of multi-story rowhouses where seniors are stuck on one floor.
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New-York Historical Society Speculators constructed rowhouses in the middle of empty fields along West 133rd Street in the 1880s.
The Mecca of Black America Edward Kosner 2011
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The explosion, which flattened a pair of rowhouses and set fire to a block of homes late Wednesday night, occurred in an area where the underground gas main lacked shut-off valves.
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He added that the committee is also starting to see an uptick in new development proposals, especially in the area east of 18th Street, which is already home to a number of small condo developments nestled among older rowhouses.
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Your particular ideology does not make reality any different. let's learn from others on neighborhood development boards -- I am fairly sure that none of the 1,000,000 urban blocks around the world that have beautiful rowhouses both rich and poor got that way with neighborhood development boards.
Ugly Townhouses and Apartment Buildings, begone! « PubliCola 2010
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