St John's housing is so unique! Coming up from the waterfront, a number of streets in what would be considered "the historic part of town" had blocks of homes much like this with little variation but for the colours. I would love to know the background reasoning for building them in this fashion, unbroken rows of them, all nearly the same width. I would imagine they're all the same layout inside (I would love to have seen one!)
Driving around to take photos of the homes one day, we toured an early governor's home, and were told that the homes on the top of the hill, all detached single-family homes, were for the wealthier families.
There was an oil boom in Newfoundland a number of recent years ago, and the town spread rapidly, which is what we saw from the air, flying in. This is the housing that is depicted in all the local art, and it's quite distinctively St John's Newfoundland.
