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We own a 1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15 in Maine and a 1986 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe 10 in West Texas. Also a pair of 1997 Volvo 850 wagons. Average age in the fleet is 28 years--we're recycling. I've published 3 novels: THE LAW OF DREAMS (2006), THE O'BRIENS (2012), and CARRY ME (2016). Also 2 short story collections: NIGHT DRIVING(1987) and TRAVELLING LIGHT (2013). More of my literary life is at www.peterbehrens.org I was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-13. I'm an adjunct professor at Colorado College and in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. In 2015-16 I was a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Autoliterate office is in Car Talk Plaza in Harvard Square, 2 floors above Dewey Cheatem & Howe. SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUTOLITERATE DAILY EMAIL by hitting the button to the right.

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Cambridge Triple-Deckers

Huron Street, Cambridge MA.
"Triple deckers sprang up in New England’s booming mill towns and industrial citiesbetween 1870 and 1910. Ambitious immigrants loved them because they offered a path to home ownership. A family could live in one apartment and collect rents from two.
"But to housing reformers, the triple decker was a fire trap and a nasty place to live. Much better, thought the reformer, were small single-family homes in the suburbs and subsidized public housing in the cities...." Three- deckers, textile mills and French Canada are a big part of the story of vernacular architecture in 19th and 20th c. New England, from Winooksi Vermont to Biddeford ME to Pawtucket RI. Here's a piece on French Canadian 8-year-old workers striking at a Maine mill. More at New England Historical Society. And here are links to other Autoliterate posts on Triple Deckahs and New England vernacular architecture:

https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2016/03/american-houses-three-deckahs-agassiz.html

https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2020/07/textile-town-part-2.html

https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2015/01/little-canada-lewiston-maine.html

https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/search?q=Brunswick

https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2015/02/looking-up-bath-maine.html

Three- deckers, textile mills and French Canada are a big part of the story of vernacular architecture in 19th and 20th c. New England, from Winooksi Vermont to Biddeford ME to Pawtucket RI. Here's a piece on French Canadian 8-year-old workers striking at a Maine mill: 

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