triple-decker
A three-story wood-frame apartment building stacked one flat per floor, iconic to New England.
Definitions
A three-story wooden apartment house, one unit per floor, built by the thousands across Boston, Worcester, Providence and the rest of New England between roughly 1880 and 1930 to house mill and factory workers. Long porches stacked out back, flat or low-pitched roof, and almost always wood-frame. If you grew up in Dorchester or Somerville you grew up in one or next to one.
A sandwich made with three slices of bread and two layers of filling. Older diner usage, still floats around menus.
triple-decker In A Sentence
Origin & Usage
New England working-class housing boom of the late 19th century; the form became so dominant in cities like Worcester and Boston that it's now a recognised vernacular architectural style.
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