Plus I doubt townhouses, inns, homes, whatever they were called back then, had air-tight windows to block out the sound in the cities. A friend of mine lived in

Plus I doubt townhouses, inns, homes, whatever they were called back then, had air-tight windows to block out the sound in the cities. A friend of mine lived in a new-ish apartment in NYC upper-west side and it was 100% silent with the windows closed. Way quieter than my house in a suburb on a main street.