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 ...

the latest housing craze requires hydraulic jacks, pylons and stilts. One home towers over its neighbors like a cruise ship. Others look like expensive tree houses. "People are stopping in to ask ...

ASHAROKEN, N.Y. -- When James Zima built his dream house on a small cove facing Long Island Sound back in 1978, he studied storm records and built his cedar plank home on stilts, 2 feet above the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is ... as it appears one strong wave would be enough to knock the house over.

Built in 1915 by a wealthy Chinese-Khmer timber merchant on a remote island in the Mekong River, the house was set on stilts ... one lighted by lamps made from old chicken cages, and a two-story ...