Style
1890 Victorian Row House
These homes enjoy high ceilings (10-12ft), deep millwork, pocket doors (sometimes a single swing), Jefferson window(2) on first floor.
Size and Shape
These long and narrow homes offer 1800-2100 sq. ft. across 2-story, rectalinear footprint. LR, DR, and kitchen hallway, and oftentimes a smallish bath or powder room (added beneath the staircase) make up the first floor Upstairs, 2-3 BR and 1, but oft times 2 baths, are accessed by duplicate front to back hallways which may at some time have incorporated a ‘back stair’. When seen from the street, these hallways accounts for approx. 1/3 of the home’s width, running straight back from the front door. The remaining 2/3 of the width.(behind the 2 Jefferson windows) are given over to LR and DR, connected to each other by pocket doors and to the hall by single swing doors These early ‘townhomes’ had flat fronts with shallow, decorative porches that are supported by either turned wooden or cast iron elements, and topped by ‘swept back’ metal roofs. Decorative cornices and sometimes still, iron cresting, look like tiaras at the second floor roof line. These City homes are close in to VCU/MCV corridor, on smaller lots, seldom offering a garage/carriage house structure, accessed by a rear alley. and may be attached or detached, with zero lot lines on one side.
