Four modernist duplex townhouses on stilts may be in the offing for Quinnipiac Avenue. They will be built in a back yard by the river, and a vacant languishing Victorian in the front will be ...

The House on Stilts, which housed celebrities like Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Carole King, and was often visited by John Lennon, is on sale for close to $2 million.

In the coastal areas of Greenwich, Conn., the latest housing craze requires hydraulic jacks, pylons and stilts. One home towers over its neighbors like a cruise ship. Others look like expensive ...

Plans to build a house on stilts on the banks of the river between Norfolk and Suffolk have been revived a year after being rejected by planners.

Andrea Hörndler and Hannes Wizany built their house, Place to Be, in Linz, Austria, on stilts. It is on a steep hillside lot—a basement would have cost a fortune and used a lot of material.

When a New York couple—she’s an arts entrepreneur; he’s a high school counselor­—bought 15 waterfront acres on the North Fork of Long Island, they envisioned a single-story house with ...