An architect and urban planner, Parolek is credited with coining the missing middle terminology.

I Spy …

These buildings are often a seamless part of a street and block with mostly single-family homes."

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Other Missing Middle clues: multiple doorbells or mailboxes.

Some of the houses were Missing Middle Housing types.

The house could be built on a 40-foot wide lot.

Missing Middle Streetscape

The slightly larger house No.

C154, a 14 room “double house” (or side-by-side duplex), needed a 50-foot lot.

Cottage communities sometimes have a shared laundry room, storage space or parking area.

Missing Middle Mailboxes

The Original Missing Middle Houses

Missing Middle Side-by-Side Duplex Homes

Three photos show two-story, duplex houses in Providence, Rhode Island

Missing Middle Cottages

Missing Middle Triplex Housing