Before & After: A Ramshackle New Jersey Row Home Becomes a Passive House With Pizzazz

Mowery Marsh Architects carve out a top-floor courtyard to bring light into a newly net-zero townhouse.

When Christa and Darren went looking for a new home to renovate in Jersey City, New Jersey, they were told to buy the one that nobody else wanted. After six months of searching, that’s exactly what they did.

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Melissa Dalton
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Melissa Dalton is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon, who has been writing for Dwell since 2017. Read more of her work about design and architecture at melissadalton.net.

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