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2. Storey - Wikipedia

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   Houses commonly have only one or two floors, although three- and four-storey houses also exist. Buildings are often classified as low-rise, mid-rise and high-rise according to how many levels they contain, but these categories are not well-defined. A single-storey house is often referred to, particularly in the United Kingdom, as a bungalow.

3. List of house types - Wikipedia

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   Southern I-House style home. An I-house is a two or three-story house that is one room deep with a double-pen, hall-parlor, central-hall or saddlebag layout. [15] New England I-house: characterized by a central chimney [16] Pennsylvania I-house: characterized by internal gable-end chimneys at the interior of either side of the house [16]

4. Three-decker (house) - Wikipedia

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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.

5. Medium-density housing - Wikipedia

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   In the U.S. most medium-density or middle-sized housing was built between the 1870s and 1940s [10] due to the need to provide denser housing near jobs. Examples include the streetcar suburbs of Boston which included more two-family and triple-decker homes than single-family homes, [10] or areas like Brooklyn, Baltimore, Washington D.C. or Philadelphia [10] which feature an abundance of row-houses.

6. Terraced house - Wikipedia

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   A typical Malaysian and Singaporean terraced house is usually one or two floors high, but a handful of three or four storey terraced homes exist, especially newer terraced houses. Earlier variations followed traditional Western, Malay, India and Chinese architecture, as well as Art Deco and International stylings between the 1930s and 1950s.

7. List of building types - Wikipedia

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   A nursing home in Wetherby, England, U.K. Garden or walk-up apartments: 1–5 stories, 50–400 units, no elevators [1] Mid-rise apartments/condos: 5–9 stories, 30–110 units, with elevators [1] High-rise apartments/condos: 9+ stories, 100+ units, professionally managed [1] Special-purpose group housing [1] Retirement home; Nursing home ...

8. Duplex (building) - Wikipedia

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   A side by side duplex also known as a semi-detached house. In dense areas like Manhattan and downtown Chicago, a duplex or duplex apartment refers to a maisonette, a single dwelling unit spread over two floors connected by an indoor staircase. [3] Similarly, a triplex apartment refers to an apartment spread out over three floors.

9. Multifamily residential - Wikipedia

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   2-Flat, 3-Flat, and 4-Flat houses: houses or buildings with 2, 3, or 4 flats, respectively, especially when each of the flats takes up one entire floor of the house. There is a common stairway in the front and often in the back providing access to all the flats. 2-Flats and sometimes 3-flats are common in certain older neighborhoods.