Residents in the downtown-adjacent area are known to shack up in craftsman- and Victorian-style homes, but there are also modern residences that step outside the usual real estate box. One eye ...

By Angela Serratore A five-bedroom townhouse on Majorca ... A Queen Anne Revival home in Galveston, a midcentury-modern bungalow in West Palm Beach and an 1890 brick house in Iowa City.

By Michael Kaminer An adobe home in Santa Fe, a Craftsman bungalow in Norfolk ... A Pueblo-style house in Miami, an 1890 townhouse in Hudson and a midcentury-modern-style home in North Bethesda.