LANCASTER IN STYLE, PART 33: BI-LEVEL AND SPLIT-LEVEL, 1960s-80s. Post-World War II housing offered an opportunity to experiment with new design ideas for the emerging “nuclear family.” With few ...

In the autumn of 2018, I was waiting for a morning class to start in the semi-basement of Schaeffer Hall when I noticed a friend sitting next to me drawing on the margins of a notebook some square ...

Split-level homes are a suburban relic of post-WWII baby boom housing trends that began in the 1950s and were popular until the 1970s. Builders riffed on the traditional ranch house in order to ...

If you take a drive through an older suburban neighborhood in the United States, you'll likely come across more than one split-level house. While they're not as commonly built today, this style of ...