Sentence examples for low stoops from inspiring English sources

WOODLAWN'S name is a pretty good example of truth in advertising: forested parks, lots of trees, thickets of greenery around the low stoops of century-old houses.

Another job for the Crimminses, the row houses at 219-225 East 62nd, are unusual for their low stoops, nearly at ground level.

Their rich red sandstone, with the low stoops set off by the flanking high-stoop brownstones, must have been eye-catching when completed in 1892.

The description of the homes gives some idea of what buyers were looking for: "On the low stoop entrance plan, with dining room, butler's pantry and kitchen on the same floor.

Mr. Gleicher is sold on Clarence True's unusual low-stoop design.

Research by the architect and preservationist Jill Szarkowski indicates that these were the first of True's low-stoop houses.

Mr. Crow's architect, George F. Pelham, followed convention in his choices for the brownstones, even though architects like Clarence True had already popularized the low-stoop house.

THE two soft red brownstones at 157 and 159 West 88th Street are peculiar little structures, two low-stoop row houses on a block of traditional high-stoop buildings.

The low-stoop brownstones at Nos. 80 to 86 were built in 1878 as an investment by the Pratt family, whose mansions are not far away on Clinton Avenue.

Around 1890, he planned the first of his low-stoop row houses on the West Side and in 1891 designed 157 and 159 West 88th Street, which appear to be the earliest surviving examples.

Murray stoops low to reach a backhand and passes him.