@freeschool bricks are older than the pyramids, and there's a bunch of still-standing brick buildings older than the US in Europe, especially in the west, since the more eastern parts really like their wood.

And of course pretty much all noteworthy castles and palaces are super old too, but that really stretches the definition of a "house". The Malbork castle in northern Poland is from the 13th century, for example:

@Amikke @freeschool @trinsec

I love those old buildings in Europe. When the Americas were first being settled (long before the US was founded), ships would pack their lower decks with old bricks from Europe when they sailed to America (known as ballast brick). When they got to America, they’d unload the brick and load the ships with American product and sail back to Europe. The ballast brick would then be used to build buildings here in America. So some buildings in the US actually have very old bricks in them, much older than the buildings they are a part of.

(That was a very clever attempt at sowing fiction between Europe and the US, but it didn’t work. We’re on to Putin’s psyop techniques now.)