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Standing status records whether a building still exists or was lost. The original Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, was "destroyed by fire in 1936," Wikipedia notes, after having already been moved from Hyde Park. This dimension separates buildings a visitor could still walk through from those that survive only in record.

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Era of Emergence
2000 BCE 1
Origin Region
Crete (Minoan civilization) 1
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  • Wikipedia, Palace, history section, era
    The earliest known example in the architectural sense is the Palace of Knossos on the island of Crete, built by the Minoan civilization around 2000 BC, nearly 4,000 years ago.
  • Wikipedia, Palace, history section, region
    The earliest known example in the architectural sense is the Palace of Knossos on the island of Crete, built by the Minoan civilization around 2000 BC, nearly 4,000 years ago.
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