A duplex house is a dwelling comprising two units either side-by-side or on two different floors. The former often looks like two houses put together, sharing a wall (compare semi-detached); the latter usually appears as a townhouse, but with two different entrances.
The term "duplex" can also be extended to three-unit and four-unit buildings, or they can be referred to with specific terms such as triplex and fourplex or quadplex.[1] Because of the flexibility of the term, the line between an apartment building and a duplex is somewhat blurred, with apartment buildings tending to be bigger, while duplexes are usually the size of a normal house.
A duplex may be purchased a single piece of real estate, or there can be separate titles for each unit. The latter is more common with semi-detached buildings where the units only share a common party wall, however it is possible for units of a duplex (or triplex or fourplex) to be owned by different owners.
This is an example of a common 20th Century duplex home built in New England.
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