144 Baltic Street
A street-level architectural precedent of a historic brick townhouse facade, useful for studying urban residential street wall proportions and fenestration rhythms.
- What we like about this project
- Delicate lace-patterned window treatments add a contrasting texture behind the dark multi-pane glass.
Materials
- red-brick
- wood
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade
- punched-windows
- dark-window-frames
- historic-rowhouse
Style tags
- historic
- traditional
- vernacular
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- historic-preservation
- residential
- facade-restoration
- streetscape
- Geometry
- Four-story flat-front masonry facade featuring a regular grid of punched rectangular window openings and a paired ground-floor entry sequence.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry with punched window openings and dark-painted wood trim.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry wall construction with timber floor joists.
- Spatial scale
- Four-story residential scale, fitting typical historic urban townhouse dimensions.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows and even illumination across the red brick plane.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, established neighborhood atmosphere framed by mature foliage and historic masonry.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban neighborhood streetscape lined with parked cars, mature street trees, and historic rowhouse architecture.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level view presents a continuous urban residential wall, set back slightly behind a low metal fence and mature street trees.
- Composition rhythm
- Steady vertical rhythm of windows aligned across horizontal floor levels.
- Style reading
- Historic vernacular urban residential
- Program
- Multi-family or single-family residential townhouse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, wood, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade, punched-windows, dark-window-frames, historic-rowhouse
- Style tags
- historic, traditional, vernacular
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, historic-preservation, residential, facade-restoration, streetscape
- Geometry
- Four-story flat-front masonry facade featuring a regular grid of punched rectangular window openings and a paired ground-floor entry sequence.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry with punched window openings and dark-painted wood trim.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry wall construction with timber floor joists.
- Spatial scale
- Four-story residential scale, fitting typical historic urban townhouse dimensions.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows and even illumination across the red brick plane.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, established neighborhood atmosphere framed by mature foliage and historic masonry.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban neighborhood streetscape lined with parked cars, mature street trees, and historic rowhouse architecture.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level view presents a continuous urban residential wall, set back slightly behind a low metal fence and mature street trees.
- Composition rhythm
- Steady vertical rhythm of windows aligned across horizontal floor levels.
- Style reading
- Historic vernacular urban residential
- Program
- Multi-family or single-family residential townhouse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture