Abbott Row Houses, Lincoln Street

From the National Registry of Historic Places: The Abbott/Cope Row Houses, built in late 1894 for William T. Cope (and lovingly restored in 1976 by William Abbott), represent a rare and well-preserved example of attached rowhouse construction, a building type seldom found in the American West. These homes constitute the only row houses in Santa Cruz and part of a small group of such structures in Northern California. Outside San Francisco, the row house form was and is seldom used; even in San Francisco, the model townhouse or row house is structurally detached from its neighbors.
The Cope Row Houses are in excellent structural condition, retain a high degree of integrity of design, and continue in their original use as single-family rental housing.


I pass by these houses dozens of times a week going to and from downtown.

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