ground story

Isaac Kremer/ May 10, 2019/ / 0 comments

That story of a building the floor of which is nearly on a level with the surrounding surface of the ground. The term should be limited to such a story when the floor is not more than two or three steps above or below the sidewalk in a city, or the courtyard, greensward, or the like, nearest approaching it, in the country. Thus, in the case of a house with a high stoop, as in many American cities where the principal floor is seven feet above the sidewalk, and the floor of the basement story is five feet below it, there is properly no ground story. (Sturgis, 1900)