The three-decker is about as close to the heart of the New England housing vernacular as it gets.
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Saturday, March 25, 2017
American Houses: Cambridge (Mass.) vernacular
Versions of the vernacular Cambridge, mostly unfancy North Cambridge, with a bit of Agassiz district. The wall is part of the O'Neill branch of the Cambridge Public Library, located in the Peabody School in North Cambridge. Tip O'Neill who represented this part of the world in Congress to me stands as a kind of anti-Trump. A man in touch with his roots, possessed of a deep Americanness but grounded in his Irish background and in the ancient values of the civitas: community, civility, democracy; treating everyone as if they were your neighbor and you were in this together.
The three-decker is about as close to the heart of the New England housing vernacular as it gets.
The three-decker is about as close to the heart of the New England housing vernacular as it gets.
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Wow! It's nice houses!
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