A couple months ago I bought a book off of Amazon which I
thought would be a good coffee table book as it is about the
history of the rowhouse in Baltimore, but when it arrived I
found that it was more then just a picture book. The book is
called The Baltimore Rowhouse and is written by Mary Ellen
Hayward and Charles Belfoure. When the book came I found it to
be a wealth of information on the architecture of this city’s
homes that I never imagined existed. The book is chopped up into
time periods and styles of architecture. Some time periods and
styles over lap, but it was relatively easy to identify which
classification mine falls under. Built in 1875 and in the South
Baltimore neighborhood of Locust Point, my house was constructed
in the Italianate Period (1850-1890). This was a time period
which saw a rise in construction of houses for working-class
families around areas of industry. The book said that at this
time transportation was still too expensive for people to live
further than walking distance to t