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A three-decker, triple-decker triplex or stacked triplex, [1] in the United States, is a three-story apartment building. These buildings are typically of light-framed, wood construction , where each floor usually consists of a single apartment, and frequently, originally, extended families lived in two, or all three floors.
Snout house: a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the street. Octagon house: a house of symmetrical octagonal floor plan, popularized briefly during the 19th century by Orson Squire Fowler; Stilt house: is a house built on stilts above a body of water or the ground (usually in swampy areas prone to flooding).
Two decker: a two family house consisting of stacked apartments that frequently have similar or identical floor plans. Some two deckers, usually ones starting as single-family homes, have one or both floors sub-divided and are therefore three or four-family dwellings.
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The right-side bay of the front has bands of three sash windows on each level. On the right side of the building, there are projecting rectangular bays, also with three-part windows. A three-car garage stands at the rear of the property. [2] The house was built about 1926, during the later years of triple-decker development in the neighborhood.
The 12th season of This Old House kicks off with the restoration of Hazel Briceno's triple-decker, three-family home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Together with the Residential Development Program of the Public Facilities Department of Boston, we'll renovate all three floors. First, we soak in the sights and sounds of Jamaica Plain.
February 9, 1990 The Lars Petterson-Silas Archer Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts . The house was built c. 1920, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a good example of Colonial Revival architecture from that period. [ 1 ]
The John B. McDermott Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1910, it is distinctive for its preservation, and the scale and profusion of its Colonial Revival details. It has a typical side hall plan with a side bay, and a hip roof that is unusual for the presence of pedimented gable sections.