He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.

Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.

The Grashaus, a late medieval house at the Markt, is one of the oldest non-religious buildings in downtown Aachen.

The Schwabe publishing house was founded in 1488 by Johannes Petri and is the oldest publishing house still in business.

The Capetian dynasty (), also known as the House of France, is the largest and oldest European royal house, consisting of the descendants of King Hugh Capet of France in the male line.

Dartmouth's other athletic facilities in Hanover include the Friends of Dartmouth Rowing Boathouse and the old rowing house storage facility ( both located along the Connecticut River ), the Hanover Country Club, Dartmouth's oldest remaining athletic facility ( established in 1899 ), and the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse.

A claimant for the oldest building is a former merchant's house in Higher Street, now a Good Beer Guide listed public house called the Cherub, built circa 1380.

Dedham is home to the Fairbanks House, the oldest surviving timber-frame house in the United States, scientifically dated to 1637.

Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.

* 1816 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.

The oldest standing house in Northern Europe is at Knap of Howar, dating from 3500 BC.

Two famous Nevisian buildings from the 18th century are Hermitage Plantation, built of lignum vitae wood in 1740, the oldest surviving wooden house still in use in the Caribbean today, and the Bath Hotel, the first hotel in the Caribbean, a luxury hotel and spa built by John Huggins in 1778.

* The Lange Voorhout is a wide avenue containing many splendid houses ( now home to several embassies ) as well as The Hague's oldest and narrowest house and the famous " Hotel des Indes ", the city ’ s most luxurious hotel.

* November 4 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy.

* Longman, the oldest publishing house in England, is founded.

While the house had long been claimed to have been built circa 1640 ( and being the oldest wood-framed house in North America ), core samples of wood taken from a summer beam confirmed the wood was from an oak tree felled in 1637-8.

* 1835 Bulaq version – These two volumes, printed by the Egyptian government, are the oldest printed ( by a publishing house ) version of The Nights in Arabic by a non-European.

Lexie tells Novalee that her new boyfriend had gone to her house and tried to molest her two oldest children, Brownie and Praline, before Praline had thrown up on him and Lexie returned home from work early and caught him before he got to Brownie.

A few houses and cemeteries still bear witness to the Dutch origins of the borough of Brooklyn, including the oldest house of New York City, the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House in Flatlands.

The oldest public house in Caernarfon is the Black Boy Inn, which remained in the same family for over 40 years until sold in 2003 to a local independent family business.

The Leipzig Trade Fair, started in the Middle Ages, became an event of international importance and is the oldest remaining trade fair in the world.

At the time it was the oldest known germination, remaining so until a new record was set in 2012.

It is the oldest remaining European settlement in the United States.

Giardini Pubblici is among Milan's oldest remaining public parks, founded on 29 November 1783, and completed around 1790.

It is the oldest National League ballpark and the second oldest active major league ballpark ( after Fenway Park on April 20, 1912 ), and the only remaining Federal League park.

The oldest remaining building of Wiesbaden, the old city hall, was built in 1609 and 1610.

's-Hertogenbosch also has the oldest remaining brick house in the Netherlands, ' de Moriaan ', which was built at the beginning of the 13th century.

It is the oldest of the original nine English public schools defined by the Public Schools Act 1868 and is one of four remaining full boarding independent schools, meaning all pupils are boarders, in the United Kingdom ( the others are Eton College, Harrow School and Radley College ).

The deep marine record, the source of most isotopic data, only exists on oceanic plates, which are eventually subducted — the oldest remaining material is old.

* 1796 – Blackwell's great-grandson Jacob Blackwell constructs the Blackwell House, the island's oldest landmark, New York City's sixth oldest house and one of the city's few remaining examples of 18th-century architecture

The Lutherhaus is one of the oldest and most picturesque half-timbered buildings remaining in Eisenach.

While this remains a matter of contention, it is likely to be the oldest remaining synagogue in Western Europe.

The " Salle des États Généraux ", built in the beginning of the 13th century, is one of the oldest seignoral rooms preserved in France, and is also the largest remaining civilian Gothic room remaining.

Dating from 1229, when Philip I, Count of Boulogne, built the fortifications of Calais, it is one of the oldest monuments of Calais, although the oldest remaining traces date to 1302.

Pruntytown is the oldest remaining town in present-day Taylor County.

One of the country's oldest remaining skate parks, Harrow Skate Park, is next to the leisure centre.

It is the oldest known brick home remaining in the Big Sandy Valley.

The oldest remaining house in Los Angeles is the Avila Adobe located on Olvera Street ( built in 1818 ).

It is not, however, the oldest remaining house in Los Angeles County.

The National Rail service is operated by Southeastern on the suburban Greenwich Line at Deptford railway station, the oldest passenger only railway station in London, and St Johns, as well as nearby New Cross.

Christopher Street is the oldest street in the West Village, as it ran along the south boundary of Admiral Sir Peter Warren's estate, which abutted the old Greenwich Road ( now Greenwich Avenue ) to the east and extended north to the next landing on the North River, at present-day Gansevoort Street.

Several of the oldest cities of north-western Europe are highlighted in this astronaut photograph from just after midnight ( 00: 25 Greenwich Mean Time ) on August 10, 2011.