TY - BOOK AU - McKenna, H. Dickson. TI - A house in the city: a guide to buying and renovating old row houses AV - TH 4816 .M35 1971 PY - 1971/// CY - New York PB - Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc. KW - ARCHITECTURE -- DOMESTIC N1 - Includes index; Introduction -- One. A history of the row house -- Two. neighborhoods -- Three. The right house for you -- Four. The cost of a city house -- Five. Renovating the house --Six. Some city houses N2 - This book is about finding, evaluating, buying, renovating, and living in city houses. The usual city house is a row house: it can be anywhere from two to five stories high, is built of brownstone, limestone, brick, or wood, occupies a narrow, rectangular plot of land, and shares side walls with its neighbors ER -