#shareddna

More on the DNA Architecture

This time I am setting my sights higher: we’re looking at matchy apartment buildings.

There are, as we have celebrated over and over on this site, many eye-catchingly lovely examples of rowhouses built in the late 1800s, and sometimes remodeled over the years since. Under their new faces, these brownstones preservetheir history. Some, like the distinctly handsome Queen Anne structures–each with…

Odds and dead ends

DNA

After mentioning that there are often rows of houses that share the same DNA, I would hope that you look as you pass and appreciate the similarities and differences on the side streets you walk.

The Upper East Side is full of examples where facades show memories of the past, some altered and upgraded or at least modernized, others reflecting the former glory.In fact, one such row of four…