In fact, it usually takes more foundation and roof for a one-story house than it does for a two-story, for the reason that it covers more ground space than would be required for the same or a larger number of rooms in the two floors.
At the same time the two-story house is nearly always the more economical both to build and to operate, while one flight of stairs does not add appreciably to the house-wife's work.
Of course, there must be stairs even in a one-story house, but they would not be in constant use.
I fancy it will be much nearer to this one-story house, with the high basement and big attic, than to the seven-story mansard with sub-cellar for fuel and furnace.
On the Exum farm, our house was about a half-mile from Grandma's two-story house.
Papa was fast becoming a good carpenter and he did his part in helping build a two-story house on Grandpa's portion of the land.
Anyway, the Big House was a two-story house; white like mos' houses endurin' dat time.
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