Blood will Flow

Well the chair might only be 1600s
Forget my state, which became a state in 1889, that chair is older than my country - and gorgeous, by the way. And since you're a Viking expert, I don't think we should discount them ;)

America would have to seem odd coming from structures of that age. Last year, I took a tour of the oldest remaining residential house in my state, which happens to be here on the island - it was built in the 1890s.

But I come from an area that is rich in geological activity and still has old growth forests - that and hearing the epic tales passed down from the local Native American traditions is the history I grew up with and is probably the reason I've never missed the sense of age brought by the beautiful buildings of Europe. Glaciers and rivers carving valleys and tectonic plates raising mountains pretty thoroughly manages to dwarf any human timescale.