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The watercolour of a fisherman's house by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528 CE). Painted c. 1497 CE. (British Museum, London)

The exterior of a traditional Japanese house. Sakano family's residence, Jousou-shi (city) Ibaraki-ken (Prefecture), Japan.

Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins' (l. 1581-1644 CE) house at Plimoth Plantation, a reconstruction of Plymouth Colony. Plymouth, MA.

A fresco showing a silver tray containing prunes, dried figs and dates, and a glass cup with red wine. From the House of the Deer (Casa dei Cervi) at Herculaneum. Naples National Archaeological...

Samuel Relating to Eli the Judgements of God upon Eli's House, oil on canvas by John Singleton Copley, 1780. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut.

The ruins of the Great House, Kilwa on the Swahili Coast (modern Tanzania). Likely constructed during the reign of al Hasan ibn Suleiman (r. 1320-1333 CE).

The peristyle of the house of the Vettii, Pompeii. The villa was preserved following the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE.

The 5.8 m high columns of the atrium of the House of Dionysos, Delos. 3rd-2nd century BCE. The famous mosaic depicting Dionysos riding a tiger was discovered here.

Boothby Pagnell Manor House, Lincolnshire, U.K. Built c. 1200 CE.

Redware pottery depicting the so-called "soul house", from E-Kab, Egypt, 11th to 12th Dynasties, 2024-1700 BCE. It has flattened pellets representing a loop of wood. One of the two pillars which supports the roof is...