They lived in split-level houses next to one another that they bought around 1953 for about $30,000 at 39, 35 and 31 Tanners Road in Great Neck.
For millenniums, people have huddled together, in caves, in mud huts, in split-levels and Cape Cods.
Those considered very well off lived in split-levels, had a housecleaner come in once a week and took summer vacations in Europe.
That leaves people whose candlelit houses are bathed in the glow of more fortunate neighbors at the low end of the priority pole, whether they reside in split-levels on Staten Island or in mansions in Larchmont.
He and his wife, Mireille, still live in the house Marty was born in, a split level with a big bay window, in the St.-Léonard neighborhood of Montreal.
Mr. Guttenberg grew up in a split level with one and a half baths on a cookie-cutter block in North Massapequa.
I hopped downstairs in the split level home we shared with my grandmother and my husband commented, "You look happy".
The 3,600 square foot facility included this feature to make more room for vehicles in the split level garage.
Famous Wright hallmarks include small kitchens, narrow doorways, built-in furniture, split levels, and unusual spatial geometries.
Going from a modernist house in Botafogo to a glass house in the mountain enclave of Petropolis above the city, dancing all night on Ipanema beach in front of the tall hotels lining the beach, was a jolt for a girl reared in a small split level in one of the many suburban developments which had sprung up around New York City.
Simply climbing the stairs in her Jericho split level left her breathless.
