Author also romanticizes 19th century housing. A lot of Newark homes were financed by building and loan associations that had...questionable...methods. Others were built by big developers or in conjunction with corrupt trolley companies. Not pictured were the 3-floor, 6 family homes that were crammed full of immigrant families and were never intended as anything more than a cheap copy of the refined middle-class housing the author is so high on. And, even if we're just talking aesthetics, even in their heydey Newark neighborhoods were mostly eclectic mixtures of wooden victorian's that many observers criticized in comparison to the classic brick rowhomes of Philadelphia or Brooklyn.