Triple decker apartment house in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

A triple-decker or three-decker is a three-family apartment building, usually of frame construction, in which all three apartment units are stacked on top of one another. Each apartment typically has a front and/or back porch and, because the buildings are usually freestanding, windows on all four sides. They were most commonly built in medium to large cities in the New England area, particularly Boston, Worcester, Lawrence, and Lowell, Massachusetts between 1870 and 1920, primarily as housing for the large numbers of European immigrants then flooding those cities. They were regarded as much more livable than their brick and stone tenement counterparts in other Northeastern cities, as they allowed for airflow and light on all four sides of each building. Image File history File links Tripledecker1. ... Image File history File links Tripledecker1. ... While the states marked in red show the core of New England, the regions cultural influence may cover a greater or lesser area than shown. ... Alternative meanings: Boston (disambiguation) The 18th-century Old State House in Boston is surrounded by tall buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries. ... The city of Worcester (pronounced ) is the county town of Worcestershire in England; the river Severn runs through the middle, with the citys large Worcester Cathedral overlooking the river. ... // Place names In the United States of America Lawrence, Kansas Lawrence, Massachusetts Lawrence, Michigan Lawrence, New York Lawrence, Wisconsin Lawrence Township, Minnesota Lawrence Township, New Jersey Lawrence Township, Pennsylvania Elsewhere Lawrence, New Zealand Related name variants Several places named Lawrenceburg Several places named Lawrenceville Educational institutions Lawrence Academy at Groton... Lowell is the name of several places in the United States of America: Lowell, Arkansas Lowell, Florida Lowell, Indiana Lowell, Maine Lowell, Massachusetts Lowell, Michigan Lowell, North Carolina Lowell, Ohio Lowell, Oregon Lowell, Vermont Lowell, Wisconsin Lowell (town), Wisconsin Lowell Point, Alaska Lowell Township, Michigan Lowell Township, Minnesota Lowell Observatory... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. ... Categories: Stub | House types ...

They were built in huge numbers, in some areas, comprising entire neighborhoods, but by the 1950s, many of them had been razed or abandoned, due to urban flight. Starting in the early 1980s, however, they became desireable again, largely by home buyers looking for homes with built in income potential (they could live in one unit and rent out the other two, thus helping them pay their mortgage). // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 60s and 70s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...