Unlike nearby Kilsyth, most housing within Mount Hope was built without formal company planning, but Bailey Row was an exception: a cluster of 14 identical houses developed by the Mount Hope Coal Company on the outskirts of the community along Dunloup Creek at Snyder and Park Streets to shelter miners working in the nearby Bailey Mine. Bailey Row formed a distinct neighborhood immediately downstream from the railroad shops, mines, and the commercial center of Main Street. Built on available flat land in the floodplain known as the bottomlands, the houses were vulnerable to flooding from the beginning, and the company raised many of them on block foundations to reduce that risk.