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houses - events| c. 300 BC | Rome | The Romans invent the hypocaust. Developed from the Spartan heating system, hot air from underground fires is funnelled through pipes in the walls and under floors to heat public baths and most private houses. | | 1572 | Italy | The Villa d'Este in Tivoli, Rome, Italy, is completed to a design by the Italian architect Pirro Ligorio. The elaborate formal gardens of the villa are among the finest of the Renaissance. | | 1618 | UK | The Queen's House at Greenwich, London, England, designed by the English architect Inigo Jones, is completed. It one of the first truly Renaissance buildings in Britain. | | 1723 | North America | A house with running water is built for the first time in North America. It belongs to John Headly in Newport, Rhode Island. | | 1946 | USA | The ranch house, a one-story design, becomes the most popular style in the USA's growing suburbs. | | 7 June 1982 | USA | Elvis Presley's home Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, opens to the public. | | 1987 | UK | House prices in Britain rise exponentially, particularly in the south, with a house in London, England, costing more than five times the owner's salary. |
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| On either side, as I advanced, the desolate old houses frowned on me. There remains to-day but a very imperceptible vestige of the Place de Grève, such as it existed then; it consists in the charming little turret, which occupies the angle north of the Place, and which, already enshrouded in the ignoble plaster which fills with paste the delicate lines of its sculpture, would soon have disappeared, perhaps submerged by that flood of new houses which so rapidly devours all the ancient façades of Paris. I stepped over the great western gate, and passed very gently, and sidling, through the two principal streets, only in my short waistcoat, for fear of damaging the roofs and eaves of the houses with the skirts of my coat. |