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Ok fun fact I learned not long ago: napoleonic France (and other European countries, mostly those invaded by napoleon) used to have a form of property tax that charged by the amount of street-facing windows a building had. Now there's a bunch of old buildings with bricked-up windows or just walls painted to look like windows because people didn't want to pay as much tax.
All I'm saying is, people paying through the nose for windows has a longer history than you might think.
Same thing with chimneys. As with the window tax the rich took it to the other extreme and put in as many windows or hearths as they could to show off.