The second floor of my house was added after WWII when the daughter's husband returned from Europe. Daughter and husband got the second floor, parents and older brother the first floor. Many houses in the area have "mother-in-law" apartments in the basement. They are walkout basements with an entry on the front of the house under the high balcony-like front porch. I think often the in-laws were the original home owners and they moved to the basement apartment so that one of the married kids and their spouse and kids would live upstairs. These are mostly very small houses. Some neighborhood lots houses have a second house where family lived.
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