The Four-Story Wooden Palace That Was Shipped to London in Pieces and Pegged Together on Top of the Bridge
Nonsuch House was a four-story prefabricated Dutch timber palace built in the Low Countries in 1577, dismantled, shipped to London, and reassembled on Old London Bridge using only wooden pegs. It stood there for 180 years, was demolished in 1757, and gave its name to a generation of substantial-luxury London building.
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