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Medieval turf house and church in Iceland. The Icelandic turf farmstead has developed from the longhouse, a Northern European tradition. As their name suggests, turf is one of the main materials used for its construction. Timber is used...

John Knox House, High Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. Allegedly, the house in which Scottish reformer John Knox spent his last years and died.

The House of the Birds is a large residence in Italica (an archaeological site located in modern-day Santiponce, 9 kilometres (5.5 miles) north of Seville in Spain) endowed with a good quantity of mosaics of high quality. One of them, the...

This building was found fortuitously in the early 1960s and takes its name from the discovery in its vicinity of some statues that must have come from a Mithraeum (a temple built to honour the god Mithras). The whole house was built around...

The remains of a 2-1st century BCE Roman house on the island of Delos. The building is known as the House of Hermes and was originally of five stories, three of which survive. The building includes a peristyle, stairs, and various rooms including...

One of the ponds filled with white Japanese Koi fish in the gardens of the Jim Thompson House Museum, Bangkok Thailand. The house was constructed c. 1959 CE. This photo was taken in TJuly 2019 CE.

An 1888 oil on canvas painting, The Yellow House, by Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), the Dutch post-impressionist artist. Painted in September, van Gogh rented rooms here – the part with the green shutters. Van Gogh's home holds the centre of...

An 1874 oil on canvas, Piette's House at Montfoucault, Snow Effect, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. The house belonged to Pissaro's fellow artist and good friend Ludovic Piette. (The Clark Art Institute...

Part of the six-building complex that is the Jim Thompson House Museum in Bangkok, Thailand and built c. 1959 CE. Thompson built a traditional antique wooden Thai-style house using temple doors from junk shop finds and gathered six old teakwood...

This is the drawing or living room at the Jim Thompson House Museum in Bangkok, Thailand. The house was built c. 1959 CE from teak that was hundreds of years old and salvaged by Jim Thompson from the ruins of Ayutthaya (c. 1351 - 1757 CE...