The 1958 Lego terraced cottages

 
This row of cottages was available for toys shops as a glued-together display model, featuring in a leaflet of such models from 1958. The entire leaflet is on show at Brick Fetish (where tiny links at the bottom lead to the other models). Because I didn't have enough white round bricks for the pillars I made them in yellow, which also provides a bit of variety.

I've taken some pictures while building them, so here's a kind of step-by-step, using period-correct bricks made from cellulose acetate plastic. These buildings are small enough that these bricks hold together fairly well, so no need to resort to my trick of clamping paper inbetween the layers.

The base consists of three 6x8 plates, where a couple of 2x3 bricks are used to keep them together. I've used such bricks as I have while trying to keep the construction as consistent as possible between the three cottages.

The next layer also has a couple of 2x2 bricks to help keep things stable. The rear of the cottages isn't shown in the model leaflet, so I've just used some shuttered windows which I think look good.

Next layer is another three 6x8 plates, with the old waffle-pattern bottom. Where it took a lot of trial and error to find some windows that would still fit onto those plates because cellulose acetate warps with age so quite a few windows just couldn't be used here. 

After fitting the plates, building the stepped roof is easy to do in three layers, capped by 1x2 white bricks for chimneys.