Well the chair might only be 1600s but the altar paintings are 1300s and so certainly older than European Amercia (well, if you discount the Viking settlement that is!).
I admit, my interest has always been in history older than c1600, so when I went to the States I beelined for the Mesa Verde national park because the Pueblo Indian villages really grabbed me - while the 19th C church my Illinois friend took us to in Chicago, not so much. It's one reason I really wouldn't want to live in Australia - too far away from the good stuff!