We've blogged about Baltimore's fantastic rowhouses before, and now the Baltimore Sun features the inside of artist Robert McClintock and his wife's "painted lady" rowhouse in Baltimore's Charles Village. The couple did much of the impressive renovating themselves. Click below to see more photos of the house...
The bathroom sink and tub are original to the Victorian house. We love the photo below of the adorable cat Tony, who is standing between the kitchen and the dining room.
Below is a photo of the McClintock's living room.
To read the full Baltimore Sun article "In living color; Artist Robert McClintock and his wife turned their rowhouse into one of the 'painted ladies' of Charles Village" click here.
[Photos by Karl Merton Ferron for the Baltimore Sun.]
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As much as people like the painted ladies, I'm a little bit partial to the Baltimore version of the brownstone. But for $65,000, they made out pretty well. Today, that's just going to buy you a step above a shell.
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i actually bought some of his work when i lived in baltimore. heck, i actually entered his house. though i don't really remember much of it, cause i was mostly in his studio.
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Um, you guys do realize that West Philadelphia is _full_ of houses of those _exact same design_?
(We don't call'em "painted ladies." That's for the San Francisco Victorians, which boasted spectacular paint styles. The Philly and Baltimore ones are just big row homes; the fantastic paint colors came later.)
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WOW, BrianSiano, you mean to tell me that cities can have the same type of housing? And that these row homes probably exist in several variations all over the country?
Who would have thought? And the post is so misleading to say that these are the only ones in the entire world - except it doesn't say that.
Maybe Robert McClintock is also the only artist in the world to paint dogs, too.
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Oof -- calm down people...
The homes in baltimore look the same as most other big cities up and down the east coast because the same teams of carpenters and bricklayers built them all...
The fact that the "painted ladies" are known outside of *just baltimore* is no fault of baltimore... but give us a little room to shine once in a while, we don't ask for much.
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"The homes in baltimore look the same as most other big cities up and down the east coast because the same teams of carpenters and bricklayers built them all..."
Not necessarily true. I think Formstone is pretty unique to Baltimore: http://www.pattersonparkneighbors.org/history/folkways.html
Anyways, I love the homes in Charles Village. I can only afford an apartment right now and it's a shame that most openings there are snatched up quickly by Hopkins students.
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A Dirty Shame by John Waters has a funny bit about good ol' formstone...and it was filmed in my old neighborhood!
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