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Perhaps no other American city is so defined by an indigenous architectural style as Baltimore is by the rowhouse, whose brick facades march up and down the gentle hills of the city. Why did the rowhouse thrive in Baltimore? How did it escape destruction here, unlike in many other historic... read more
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IN MAY 1846 Traugoth Singewald, a twenty-year old who had arrived in Baltimore from Germany only the year before, bought the first of many rowhouses in which generations of his family would live and work.
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- Mary Ellen Hayward (Author)
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