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- : Sears houses were owner-built "kit" houses sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co. through its catalog division from 1906 -1940.
- , so-called because of the appearance of the structure
- , pioneered by Buckminister Fuller
- '''
- : Popular in the Northeastern United States
- : a traditional style house in the United States
- '''s are three-storied townhouses with the top floor reserved for the working quarters.
- :
- (free-standing): Any house that is completely separated from its neighbours.
- ---: Single story house (not including optional basement)
- ---: Multilevel house that appears as a bungalow from the front elevation
- ---: Multilevel house that appears as a two story house in front and a bungalow in the back. It is the opposite of a backsplit and is a rare configuration.
- ---: Multilevel house where the different levels are visible from the front elevation
- ---: Adjacent detached properties which do not have a party wall, but which are linked by the garage(s) and so forming a single frontage.
- ---, '''three-story'''
- ---: Single story house, usually with garage and basement.
- , a house where the main structure is prefabricated (common after WWII).
- ---, a type of prefab house
- '''.
- : Rowhouse or semi-detached house that is linked only at the foundation. Above ground, they appear as detached houses. Linking the foundations reduces cost.
- ''' house with non-contextual French Provencal references.
- :
- , constructed of ice
- , a house built of unsquared timbers
- : Very large/expensive house
- (1980s - 90s) Inflated suburban house with classicizing references.
- ''' Stable -block that has been converted into residential properties. The houses are converted into ground floor garages with a small flat above which used to house the Ostler .
- ''', "'' Brownstone s''" are rowhouses. Rowhouses are typically multiple stories. The term townhouse is currently coming into wider use in the UK, but terraced house (not "terraced home") is more common.
- : A style popular in the 50's and 60's.
- '''''" in the USA.
- 1920s houses inspired by hollywood set design
- , usually a lightweight, moveable structure
- ''' is a style of housing where (generally) identical individual houses are conjoined into rows - a line of houses which abut directly on to each other built with shared party walls between dwellings whose uniform fronts and uniform height created an ensemble that was more stylish than a "''rowhouse''". However this is also the UK term for a "rowhouse" regardless of whether the houses are identical or not.
- ---''' in England .
- A house that is built among the branches or around the trunk of one or more mature trees and is a least 3m off the ground.
- '''), and is now coming into use as a term for new terraced houses, which are often three stories tall with a garage on the ground floor.
- ---: Units are stacked on each other; units may be multilevel; all units have direct access from the outside
- : A small, usually rundown, wooden building.
- :
- '''.
- (caravan in British English)
- refers to the style of Architecture and decorative arts modelled on the original Tudor Architecture produced in England between 1485 and 1603.
- --- refers to a modern emulation of Tudorbethan Architecture .
- : a relatively self-contained housing unit in a building which is often rented out to a family or one or more people for their exclusive use. Sometimes called a ''flat''. Some locales have legal definitions of what constitutes an apartment.
- : a multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more) apartments.
- , '''block of flats''' or ''' Tower Block ''': a high-rise apartment building
- : a form of ownership of an individual apartment and a percentage of common areas
- , a form of ownership in which a corporation owns the entire apartment building or development and residents own shares in the corporation that correspond to their apartment and a percentage of common areas
- '''s, usually side-by-side, but sometimes on two different floors. The former often looks like two House s put together, sharing a wall (see ''semi-detached''); the latter usually appears as a townhouse, but with two different entrances.
- : an apartment, especially one taking up an entire floor of a house with several flats.
- , '''3-Flat''', and '''4-Flat''' houses: Houses or buildings with 2, 3, or 4 flats, respectively, especially when each of the flats takes up one entire floor of the house. There is a common stairway in the front and often in the back providing access to all the flats. 2-Flats and sometimes 3-flats are common in certain older neighborhoods.
- : a type of apartment that is in a building built on a very narrow lot (usually about as wide as a Railroad Car , or Pullman Car sections thereof), thus there is no room for a Hallway . Rooms are built end-to-end, one must pass through all the rooms to get from one end to the other of the apartment.
- : a building style usually characterized by two story, semi-detached buildings, each floor being a separate apartment.
- , government-owned housing
- : an apartment / flat on two levels with internal stairs, or which has its own entrance at street level. Less used in the UK now that the term apartment is migrating into British English.
- : The top floor of multi-story building
- ( East German ) / ''' Panelák ''' ( Czech , Slovak ) - a communist-era tower block that is made of slabs of concrete put together.
- a multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more) apartments (i.e. an apartment building). In the United States the connotation implies a run-down or poorly-cared-for building.
- or ''' Warehouse Conversion '''
- Garage-apartment: An apartment over a garage; if the garage is attached, the apartment will have a separate entrance from the main house.
- Garalow: a portmateau word garage+bungalow; similar to a garage-apartment, but with the apartment and garage at the same level.
- ).
- : an apartment building that has four floors of apartments on top of parking. It was particularly popular in Chicago during the 1960s and 1970s, especially on the city's north side.
- : a three-family apartment house, usually of frame construction, in which all three apartment units are stacked on top of ane another.
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