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Some typically elegant Victorian brick houses on Sidney Street between 23rd and 24th.
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Side-by-side duplexes are often built to give the impression of a single elegant house; but over the years, separate ownership can destroy the illusion, as it has done in the left-hand pair, where one half has been modernized without regard to the appearance of the whole.