Why does Detroit have no row houses or brownstones?!

**ghettopalmetto** · December-07-10, 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by stasu1213

Detroit, in it's heyday, were a much better place to live in than New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington DC. Detroiters didn't have to live on top of one another.

I've seen 3000 sf rowhouses sell for upwards of $1 million. Seems to me that people don't necessarily mind "living on top of one another".

The rowhouse would be expected to have been the housing style of choice in 18th and 19th century residential construction in Detroit, as this was the predominant technology at the time [[kind of how plastic Pulte homes are predominant now). Given that Detroit has very very few buildings remaining from the pre-20th century, I would not be the least bit shocked if they were all bulldozed in the name of "progress".

**iheartthed** · December-07-10, 08:45 AM

Originally Posted by ghettopalmetto

Given that Detroit has very very few buildings remaining from the pre-20th century, I would not be the least bit shocked if they were all bulldozed in the name of "progress".

Yeah, that's my theory since there are examples of rowhouses in Detroit, but they are fragmented examples.