The house is bisected by a double-height hallway with a skylight, and rooms are generously proportioned.
There were few surprises: New York City's School Construction Authority has a thick book of guidelines, rules that dictate the width of windows, the height of hallways, and what the walls can be made of.
The four of us came out of the cold into a double-height entrance hallway, to be greeted by no one at all, apart from a very, very tall man, at least six feet five, who was looking at his mobile phone as if he was struggling to get reception, and more interested in that than in any other form of human interaction.
The hallway is double height and beautifully lit by a large window above the front door.
There were half a dozen women of unusual height and weight drifting around the hallways when I arrived.
But plenty of basic structural information can be missing: the height of the windows, the width of hallways, the placement of electrical outlets, the apartment's overall condition.
Visitors enter a short, dark hallway with just a few television screens at different heights.
Steinbrenner slapped Weaver's back, commented on his height -- Weaver is 6 feet 5 inches -- and led him into a hallway, where Yogi Berra walked by.
The main entrance, on the second floor, opens to a hallway that leads to an airy living room with a double-height vaulted ceiling of varnished wood.
She sauntered away and left me facing a spare man of ordinary height, whose reddish-fair hair was cut very short and glistened in the artificial light from the hallway.
