A little-known bit of Stooges trivia is that the house-building sketches that appear in some of their shorts are based in fact - four of the houses they built in the 1920's were within a five-minute walk from where I/my wife grew up:
https://forgotten-ny.com/2003/04/spy...in-bath-beach/
Although the corner house was demolished in 2003 (in spite of neighborhood efforts to landmark or otherwise preserve the property) the houses to the left are still holding up well a century later - in stark contrast to those in the following clip: