There was once a row of houses called "Purim-Place" in London. This little bit from Isaac D'israeli's Curiosities of Literature explains how it came to be, it all started with a squabble about the lack of decorum during the megillah. This occurred in 1783 ("not long ago").
What had happened was, things got kind of crazy, and the Mahamad, or synagogue board, issued a regulation coming down hard on the lack of decorum, and enforced it that year with constables.
One member of the mahamad was outraged, and it all snowballed from there. He withdrew from the congregation, and at some point in a very odd show of something-I'm-not-sure-what named the houses he built Purim-Place.
Here are more specific details in the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, 1927.

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