The number of
stories reflects the size of the houses and number of rooms. The height
or number of stories varies largely with time and by house styles. In
the 19th century larger houses had 2 or more stories. By the 1920s
multi-story style houses were out of fashion; instead 1.5 story houses became
common. By the 1950s one-story suburban houses were the rule. During the
1960s energy crisis, multi-story houses became popular again because they are
cheaper to heat than one story houses of the same size. Multi-story houses
continue to be common.
Click on each story for a bar graph to see the detailed distribution over the last 110 years and look at a map of stories.
Click on this
to examine the spatial
distribution of house
stories.
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Created by Asagi Iwabuchi and Tsutomu Tabei on 15 June 1996; Declan Green, Samantha Murray, Dave Whyte on 8 June 1997.
