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Facts : 1 North America In the United States and Canada, a townhouse has two connotations
Facts : 2 The older predates the automobile and denotes a house on a small footprint in a city, but because of its multiple floors (sometimes six or more), it has a large living space, often with servants quarters
Facts : 3 The small footprint of the townhouse allows it to be within walking or mass-transit distance of business and industrial areas of the city yet luxurious enough for wealthy residents of the city
Facts : 4 Townhouses in Portland, Oregon Townhouse in East 30th Street, New York Townhouses are expensive where detached single-family houses are uncommon, such as in New York City, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, Washington, DC, and San Francisco
Facts : 5 Rowhouses are similar and consist of several adjacent (next-to), uniform units originally found in older, pre-automobile urban areas such as Baltimore, Charleston (South Carolina), Savannah, and New Orleans but now found in lower-cost housing developments in suburbs as well
Facts : 6 A townhouse is where there is a continuous roof and foundation and a single wall divides adjacent townhouses, but some have a double wall with inches-wide air space in between on a common foundation
Facts : 7 A rowhouse will generally be smaller and less luxurious than a dwelling called a townhouse
Facts : 8 The name townhouse or townhome was later used to describe non-uniform units in suburban areas that are designed to mimic detached or semi-detached homes
Facts : 9 Today, the term, townhouse, is used to describe units mimicking a detached home that are attached in a multi-unit complex
Facts : 10 The distinction between living units called apartments and those called townhouses is that townhouses usually consist of multiple floors and have their own outside door as opposed to having only one level and/or having access via an interior hallway or via an exterior balcony-style walkway (more common in the warmer climates)
Facts : 11 Another distinction is that in most areas of the US outside of the very largest cities, apartment refers to rental housing, and townhouse typically refers to an individually owned dwelling, although the term townhouse-style (rental) apartment is also heard
Facts : 12 Such homes have multiple units vertically (typically two), normally each with its own private entrance from the street or at least from the outside
Facts : 13 They can be side by side in a row of three or more, in which case they

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