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Last one for the week! 
Throughout Halifax, Nova Scotia's pre-War history, two housing styles have dominated: the Halifax Big House and the Halifax Box. The Big House came first in the 1860s after fire decimated much of the old city. The Box replaced the Big House around the 1880s as new suburbs were developed outside of the old core. The typical Halifax Box is a simple two-storey wooden building with an almost flat roof and an off-centre door. Boxes had full kitchens on the main level with a coal-fired furnace and storage in the basement (apples and potatoes!). Boxes in the wealthier suburbs to the West of Robie Street tended to have bay windows whereas the ones East of Robie were built to provide housing for workers and tended to be simpler structures. The worker's Boxes tended to be built wall-to-wall, but frequent narrow gaps were left, which today have become very narrow driveways. This upload replicates the worker's Boxes. For several decades Boxes dominated as Halifax grew. The Halifax Explosion of 1917, however, flattened many of them in the North End and others were lost to new development over the years. The area between North Street, Robie Street and the Citadel, however, was shielded from the Explosion by the hill at Fort Needham and declined economically throughout the late 20th century. The result of being spared disaster and being unattractive to development is that Halifax Central has the greatest surviving concentration of Boxes left in the city. Streets like Bauer, Creighton, Woodill and, in particular, Maynard are still lined with Worker's Boxes and have not changed significantly in 100 years. As Halifax Central has gentrified over the last decade, many Boxes have been renovated and restored to their former glory. Where they were once home to the working class that powered Halifax's factories, they're now increasingly home to the city's urban professionals.
Included in this upload are 28 different Boxes, 14 with two windows on the front and 14 with three windows on the front. Each Box is individually textured with a unique front and back. All 28 are part of the same prop family meaning that any Box can be paired with any other for a total of 378 unique combinations! Not to brag, but this is probably one of the most varied single housing sets available The Boxes provide housing for R$$ and come on several lot sizes: 1x2, 2x2, 3x2 and 4x2. The 2x2s include corner versions and the 3x2s and 4x2s come with narrow driveways to reflect that particular Halifax pattern. Four dependencies: BSC Essentials (mandatory), BSC Texture Pack Cycledogg Vol 1 (mandatory), BSC Mega Props CP Vol01 (trees, trash cans and cars) and BSC Mega Props - SG Vol 01 (rose bushes). UPDATED: Fixed the larger lots (2x2 and larger) from growing on low density. Sorry for any inconvenience.
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