[Matthew]

It's great seeing Roanoke. Neighboring Lynchburg, with its beautiful hills, is worth visiting, too.

Winston-Salem does have rowhouses and had more before expressway construction and demolitions in the 1950s/60s. Even Union Station's grand entrance had rowhouses. Old postcards of the 1784 Tavern show Queen Anne rowhouses that once stood next to the old Tavern. Of those that survived, most were converted to other uses. The area between the cemetery and today's government district had several rowhouses from Baltimore architect Charles L. Carson. Sadly, only five units survived. This pocket neighborhood was likely the closest North Carolina had to a rowhouse neighborhood and they were used as 1890s infill in a neighborhood of houses built between 1820 and 1860. Winston-Salem did have several blocks of housing, with no space between the homes, to the east-northeast of downtown, likely with shared walls, but all of them were demolished for the John Gold Expressway. The best "current" collection of pre-1915 rowhouses are likely in downtown's Village District? Half of them were converted to retail in the 1950s. One of the structures is perfectly restored and has appeared in movies. Another rowhouse building is at risk of demolition for a possible 9-15 storey building. Winston-Salem also took it to the next level, with a high-rise apartment tower on the skyline in Fall 1928. The Roger L. Stevens Center for the Performing Arts was originally an apartment tower with silent movie theatre, cafe, and rooftop garden.