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Triple-deckers photographed on Douglas Ave.  This photograph illustrates the architectural variety in the triple-decker style.  Most were intended for lower-income families and provided only rudimentary quarters.  These proliferated on the side of…

Multifamily housing on Providence’s East Side in the Mount Hope neighborhood. 

This 1973 photograph shows an habitation à loyer modéré (HLMs, English: ”housing at moderated rents”), which is similar to housing projects in the United States built around the same time. The HLM pictured is in Sarcelles, a French commune…

The interior of an apartment within a triple-decker home in Central Falls. A couple is seated at the kitchen table. The interior of triple-decker houses varied by social status. A working-class family’s home would include a parlor, kitchen, bedrooms,…