Sentence examples for parlor level from inspiring English sources

Stairs from the street lead to the formal entrance, on what the owners call the parlor level.

For $295,000, they bought a two-bedroom on the parlor level of a nine-unit prewar building.

INDOORS: This unit is on the parlor level of an 1849 town house, a set of stairs up from the street.

The institution of the New York City stoop arose during Peter Stuyvesant's tenure as director of New Amsterdam, when an élite would gain the parlor level of his townhouse by climbing stone steps to a platform faced by double doors.

For folks who start out in the cellar of U.S. society, even climbing up to the parlor level is quite a feat, and one that, these days, often demands a college education.

The town house, renovated to the couple's specifications, has 12 rooms arranged on five floors: the kitchen and staff quarters are on the lowest; the foyer, powder room and dining room are on the first level; and an elaborate salon/living room with a marble fireplace occupies the parlor level.

They partially broke through walls on the garden and parlor levels, where floor-to-ceiling bay windows face north and overlook the garden, to create connective archways between what had been two separate homes.

The front hall is open to Ms. Curtis's parlor-level living room, and to the stairs up to Mr. Petrini's apartment.

When the ground-floor tenant moved out, Ms. Harvey poked through a floor in her parlor-level hall closet and found the original staircase going downstairs.

AN elaborate and voluminous parlor-level condominium in an unusually wide limestone mansion at 15 East 70th Street, a neighbor of the Frick Collection and scant steps from Central Park, has been listed for sale for the first time in 25 years.

The stairs are wide, the ceilings 11 feet high on the parlor floor, and the first level has floor-to-ceiling windows.