This doll house was built by Paul Cumbie in modeled exactly on the Vanderbilt mansion at 660 Ave, New York. Incidentally, I’ve just learned that the first doll house on record was.
simon costin of the UK has re-created the nineteenth century Charles Dickens London city out of cardboard boxes. In 2011 the Museum of London exhibited the entire village as a diorama -my mom always made me amazing things out of cardboard boxes!