Originally posted by dsmithhfx Funky house. What's with the first floor?
Where I live, houses are built with the ground floor considered "expendable" if they are in a flood-prone area, so the ground floor in modern houses is basically uninsurable and only used as a "daylight basement"
In expensive old houses (150 years or more), the ground floor was for the servants, and the family lived on the elevated first floor. Many of those now feature small rental units on the ground floor...
But that doesn't look like what's going on here, based on the houses surrounding it, unless an old habit of flooding was remedied some time ago...
-Eric