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When and where was the sequential numbering of buildings, street by street, invented? I read that Berlin in 1796 started numbering individual houses from the Bradenburg Gate, but it was neither sequential nor organized street by street.

by /u/IthinkIknowwhothatis in /r/AskHistorians

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