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Podcast: The Real Estate Espresso Podcast
Episode: Why Brick Was The Material of Choice
Description: On today’s show we are taking a short walk through the history books. As some of you know, I’ve been building apartment buildings in Philadelphia for much of the 2010’s. We assembled numerous properties over the span of several years. Many of these homes in North Philadelphia were built in the early 1900’s. These homes were very traditional townhouses that were made of structural brick. The party walls were supporting walls for the homes on either side of the walls. If I compare construction of similar vintage in other cities, the method of construction was vastly di...