How old is the oldest building in the town you live in?

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.

The oldest building in/around Vienna is believed to be the Roman stone quarry in Leithaprodersdorf. It dates back to the Roman era, around 43 AD.

The oldest continuously inhabited building in Vienna is generally considered to be the Griechenbeisl, a historic restaurant located in the Innere Stadt district. It has been in operation since the 15th century.

I live in a young city, so its from 1407.

LAFITTE'S BLACKSMITH SHOP BAR, circa 1730

Surprise surprise, it's a church. Riddarholmen Church built in the 13th century.

First or second century for the Roman baths. They're not in a great state though.

Well there's a park with some ruins from the Roman occupation, which founded this settlement in 79AD. If you count them, that's 1945 years... if not, apparently there are some churches between 800 and 900 years old that still contains some parts of the original Norman construction, although they have been altered since

I actually don't know. The area I now live in was partially wiped out by the tsunami in 2011 closer to the coast. We definitely have some buildings that are a few hundred years old that are still in use. Different parts of Japan have older, but it's almost always a Ship of Theseus sort of situation.

The student dorm I lived in was built as a monastery in 1491.
My current home town still has a guard tower built by the Romans.

If you're talking white people, technically cooks cottage (built 30 years before the first fleet) but it was brought over and reassembled in the 1930's lol

Indigenous, probably the eel traps / farming system. That's 9,000 years old iirc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Windmill,_Brisbane

It was built in the 1820s

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I live in Athens, and the oldest home still standing is about 500 years old (start of 16th century)

I live around the Yorkshire moors. There are dry stone walls up there which are up to 600 years old. I love walking up in the hills and thinking about that.

Early 1800's. I grew up in a house that was built in 1905.

Probably less than 100 years, I live in New Zealand....

The first Roman fort on the site of the castle was likely built around 55AD.

Had to look it up, but "most probably" built between AD 1000–1050. Love that it's old enough that we're not entirely sure...

1130, St Margarets Chapel.

The oldest building near where I live was believed to be built in 1640.

Domtrapphuset, the cathedral staircase house, built sometime between 1280 and 1330 AD. The cathedral the staircase (currently) leads to was finished in 1435.

I think it is an old church from around 1100. The oldest residential house is much younger, about 1550.

The oldest extant building is circa 1832, so ~192 years old - not much compared to some places but doing well for an Australian building.

Nice trick to make ppl revel city they live in and possibly most of these ppl walk past it on semi regular basis so......

I used to live in Regensburg, one of the northernmost Roman garrisons. So, the oldest remaining building (stone wall) is almost 2000 years old.

I believe the first building here was contracted around 1920-40

Weve got Roman era ruins I think, but I cant find any info on the oldest standing building. Probably from the 13th-14th century.

The tower of the old church was build around 1150, The rest of the church was build about 250 years ago.

It was built in the early 12th century.

We have a church in Berlin that was built in 1220-1230

Used to live in an old house that was already in official documents since the revolution. So not too bad. Walls were so thick...

I lived "close" to Siem Reap and the oldest building is 900 year olds (Angkor Wat)

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.

Most sources suggest 1100s

Skara brae. 3150 bc

1310 it's a small house (max. 10m wide) in the town centre. Today it's part of the library of the University hosting different exhibitions. It's called Günter Grass Archiv in Göttingen, Germany.

Spanish mission church 1782

Bremen Cathedral's oldest part is from 1044, but there was a wooden church structure there in 789 until it was completely burned down by raiding Saxons.

There's some debate on the age of the old parish church where I live. It was either built on the 7th century or 1078

There are archaeological finds of buildings from more than 9000 years ago (oldest in the region).

There's a church that was finished sometime during the 1200s and is preserved in its original form in the municipality, but technically it's not within town limits.

The main church was also initially built around that time but was rebuilt in the late 1700s - nothing of the original remains.

The cellar of a royal farm still remains, which was built in 1552, though it's more a ruin than a building.

A castle/royal manor was built in 1652, and although it has been renovated and expanded in the early 1700s, parts of the structure are still from the original.

So, I suppose it depends on what you're looking for.

Smederevo Fortress - 1428.

I live in the countryside so there ain't a lot...

Excluding ruins, 11XX. The exact dates aren't really known

My grandma has a house, where a part of it was built by the romans

142 years.

I think the oldest building would be the castle that eas first officially mentioned in 1004 AD and the first parts of the castle were built way before that.

1240 apparently https://en.czech-unesco.org/13_8874_old-town-hall-brno/

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.

Gamle Aker Kirke, church from 1150 (Oslo).

My home town has a building built originally in 1220. It is still in use by a pub. That's over 800 years old!

The oldest building would be the cathedral built between 1628 and 1633 although the city walls were built between 1613-1618 and are still standing and complete

We've got a pub from 1552 still standing and operating as a pub

We've got Roman ruins from 79AD too, but obviously they're not still a building really

The town I live in burned down almost completely in 1787, so most historic buildings in the city were built after that. The city wall is probably the oldest structure, but it's unknown when it was originally built. The oldest building with a known year of construction is most likely the church that was built in 1246.

Proper building was built at the end of 19th century. There is an old well that is a few hundred years old and the ruins of a Roman villa from about 2000 years ago.

A castle built in 1526. It’s still in use, but it’s a museum and restaurant now.

I'm not sure if it's THE oldest one, but Aarhus Cathedral is quite old, having elements from all the way back from the 1100s.

Still young compared to the city itself, though: Aarhus was originally founded in the 700s

Probably the 1840s in use. Ruins probably go back to the 13th century or thereabouts but they are no longer buildings..

I live in the western hemisphere, but a church…Late 1200s.

There was a shop, but that was allowed to fall in to disrepair, as the heritage order on it meant it couldn’t be changed, that was built around 1600s and knocked down a few years ago.

Next oldest now is a pub…late 1730s.

Build in 1723.

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.

That will probably be the church that was built in 1190s

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

A church from 1845(ish),

Apparently there was one building from the 1830s but it was knocked down for a hospital, which ironically was also knocked down.

A house from 1867, although a suburb has a house from 1853. Both are still lived in.

The Old Tower from around 1300. It was part of a church that was destroyed in 1880.

It was built in 1858! Did not know that.

A building from 1841 is still here from the French.

I figured it'd at least be a little older than 1859, but the Four Mile House in Denver is apparently our oldest structure.

1626, three-storied house.

• s&d spinning mill - 1847
• grass hill school - one room school house, 1861
• asa waters mansion - 1826-1832

The oldest local church was constructed in the 13th century, but has undergone renovations over the centuries.

Not a lot of very old houses have remained because they were mostly built out of wood and the occasional fire and the tendency to build newer homes rather than patch up the old rotten ones meant that most houses didn't make it past the 18th-19th century, when stone overtook wood everywhere except in remote farms.

Late 1800’s is when the town was established. Lots of houses from then are still standing, but a good number of them have had additions built, so they’re not 100% original.

1887 Grissom House

Don't know about the oldest home, but I'm living in a house built 10 years before the US State I was born in became a US state.

1870 to 1871 Government house was built in Darwin Australia.

Luckily survived the Japanese bombing raids and still stands today.

Our old town hall was originally built in the 15th century but it is kind of a ship of Theseus situation as the oldest parts were destroyed in WWII.

Early 1800s is the best guess. It's a log house that is maintained as a sort of museum these days.

1842, before the city was incorporated. A house. First big building I know of was built in 1888.

St. Augustine has buildings from around 1700, those would be the oldest in my state.

I remember going to London and being amazed by the old buildings, most of what is around here is from the 1920s or newer.

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