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: