Two-Room House
A two-room house is created, in essence, by placing two single-room houses side by side. On the front facade, a door opens into each room. The doors may be the only openings on the front, or they may be interspersed with windows. Inside the house, another door allows entry from one room to another. This arrangement of two entries on one single-family house is traditional, and derives from vernacular houses in southern England. It was often used in log construction, and the custom carried over into later frame houses. All remaining two-room houses in St. Louis are frame, and like the single-room houses, were sheathed with horizontal clapboards. (St. Louis, 1995)