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Originally Posted by eschaton
Personally, I tend to use "townhouse" to describe modern forms, and "rowhouse" to mean historic ones. I think this works, because we never, ever describe the modern suburban form as being rowhouses.
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that's a good general rule.
however, the shades of gray in the middle can heavily blur those lines.
for example, there's not a whole lot of functional difference between the two examples of attached housing shown below. but one is well over a century old and the other is contemporary.
old "rowhouses":
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8699...7i16384!8i8192
new "townhouses":
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8685...7i13312!8i6656