Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

When I see houses that have two front doors, I figure they're duplexes or two-family homes, don't you? But historically-speaking, that's not the case at all. I had no idea until an architect friend of ...