The richest citizens and merchants built their houses around the new centre of the town.
The rich merchants built them during the eighteenth century and they are still inhabited by members of their families.
These merchants built grand private homes and public buildings, often in the distinct National Revival style.
Many merchants built fine brick and stone town houses along the quay side.
A merchant from Inari built a shop in the center of the village.
Local lords built great halls in the countryside, while rich merchants built grand town houses.
A merchant had built it in the last century as his private theater.
The newly rich merchants built huge expensive homes and brought in new automobiles to travel on the city's few roads.
In the last century, wealthy Irish merchants built houses around the town's spring-fed freshwater lake.
The merchants built large private mansions, producing the Renaissance elements that now punctuate the closed city.