Where are you located? And can you post close up photos of the foliage/needles?

Can you go ask the people who have them?

Northwest SC

Can it be a Araucaria Araucana? We have these in Georgia.

Nope, not that :-) They have a look that is unmistakable, even with not very good photos.

I do believe there was a post not long ago about a similar tree in the south that turned out to be Cunninghamia lanceolata. These look much healthier than the one in the other post.

Featured Conifer - Cunninghamia lanceolata | American Conifer Society

Cunninghamia lanceolata would be my suggestion, too, based on proclivity to resprout from the base when winter dieback occurs around here.

In northwest SC, I doubt winter kill is the cause, but rather the owners might have cut these back on purpose to create this effect.

Definitely Cunninghamia, it's totally unmistakable as well!

"Can it be a Araucaria Araucana? We have these in Georgia."

You do not. Post a picture.

There's an Araucaria angustifolia at the Atlanta Botanic Garden.

Wow, they must have some awesome sprouting ability, unless that was planted that way with numerous trees.