Kelley and Browne Flats - St. Joseph, Missouri - Wikipedia Entries on Waymarking.com

The Kelley and Browne Flats, two sets of rowhouses (the Kelley Flats contain three units and the Browne Flats two units) sit adjacent to each other on the south side of Frederick Avenue in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri. Staggered in their design and orientation so as to provide the best façade view as one approaches from out-of-town on Frederick Avenue, a diagonal street, both rows are two-story brick structures with Queen Anne detailing which sit near the front of their respective lots abutting the public sidewalk. Although referred to as “Flats”, a misnomer, the Kelley and Browne Flats are actually rowhouses. They possess all of the typical rowhouse characteristics: built as a single-family residence of two to three stories, masonry construction, attached to a similar rowhouse with a common party wall, and sited on a narrow lot with the façade abutting the public sidewalk. [In contrast, “flats” are multi-family structures in which an entire unit or apartment is located on one floor, not split between floors.] Although deteriorated in condition due to lack of maintenance over a period of time and despite a few minor non-historic alterations, both rows possess their integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, and feeling and association.