These places usually featured a caldarium, a tepidarium, and a frigidarium, which were hot, warm, and cold rooms.
They aren't gardens or houses, but "hanging" variety of these places was invented by the oyster merchant Sergius Orata, to whom Vitruvius attributes the invention of a technology used for these places. Prayers to Sullis Minerva about stolen property are written on the "curse tablets" unearthed at one of these places. Shortly after executing his son Crispus, Constantine had his wife Fausta killed in one of these places. The Stabian place of this type in (*) Pompeii is the oldest one to feature a hypocaust system. A library was built next to a large building of this sort named for Caracalla. These places usually featured a caldarium, a tepidarium, and a frigidarium, which were hot, warm, and cold rooms. For 10 points, name this sort of public building, also called a thermae, where Romans went to clean themselves.
They aren't gardens or houses, but "hanging" variety of these places was invented by the oyster merchant Sergius Orata, to whom Vitruvius attributes the invention of a technology used for these places.
bathhouses [accept thermae until read]