To those from the Western hemisphere, it’s always fascinating to hear that some homes and businesses from the times of the Greek philosophers still have inhabitants, and then you remember that the Western hemisphere is itself not without its own examples, for example some Mexican villages still have temples from the times of the Mayans.
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The oldest extant building is circa 1832, so ~192 years old - not much compared to some places but doing well for an Australian building.
Perth?
True story - I moved from Scotland to Perth when I was 6. A few months later I visited Tranby House, one of the oldest buildings in Perth at around 1830. I remember thinking to myself that our house in Scotland before we moved was older than that (circa 1800)
Canberra actually - it’s an old dairy building that’s part of Duntroon (one of the original homesteads of the region but more well known for being where RMC/ADFA is). It pre dates Canberra by a good bit though since development of the city only really began to gain traction in the 1920s.
Domtrapphuset, the cathedral staircase house, built sometime between 1280 and 1330 AD. The cathedral the staircase (currently) leads to was finished in 1435.
Hello fellow swede :)
I used to live in Regensburg, one of the northernmost Roman garrisons. So, the oldest remaining building (stone wall) is almost 2000 years old.
A church built in the mid 1500’s is the oldest building in my current town. I used to live in a farmhouse that was built in the early 1600’s.
An old church going back to the early 1800s, though that’s misleading.
The old part of the church is still there, but it’s been updated and expanded over the years so that the foundation under one part is all that’s original now.
it’s a bit hard to tell. of the buildings still standing and in use, the cathedral comes to mind, with was consecrated in 1238, but it stands on the site of the old mosque. this was torn down apparently in 1262, at which point construction on the cathedral began, but it would take centuries to finish everything.
there is another church that was named a parish in 1245 and so was probably already standing then, so perhaps that building is the oldest? I don’t knoe how much of that original building is still standing though
The western hemisphere isn’t just the Americas. It includes half of europe…
There are quite a few people in the western hemisphere that don’t even bat an eye when they walk past a 1000 year old building on their way to work every day.
For me the oldest building is just a random house from the 13 century.
I know what you mean. The oldest building i pass every day is from dates from 1250, but compared to the parts of Europe rich in architecture that’s not really very old…
A local church is about that old (or it’s at least that old, the oldest record of it is from 1262). But there might just be a barn or a windmill that’s much older and nobody knows because at that point it’s actually medieval and record keeping wasn’t great back then.
The western hemisphere isn’t just the Americas. It includes half of europe…
“Half” is stretching it. More like a slice: UK, Ireland, Iceland, Portugal, Spain and a slice of France.
I live in New England and I’m gonna guess either the 1700s school house or one of a couple buildings I suspect are log cabins. Those could go back to around 1650
It was built in 1858! Did not know that.
The oldest building near where I live was believed to be built in 1640.
I’m in a California suburb, and the oldest building we have is an old adobe barn from 1852, which is pretty old for California. We actually have a lot of historical buildings, too.
The Old Tower from around 1300. It was part of a church that was destroyed in 1880.
A building from 1841 is still here from the French.
Smederevo Fortress - 1428.
Skara brae. 3150 bc
