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Here are some pics that I quickly dug up that shows but a tiny slice of the quality and character of St. Louis' housing stock... However, the best way to see what average housing stock looks like is to google streetview any random street-- particularly on the South Side or in the central corridor:
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Meanwhile, here's what you said earlier in this thread
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uh, what about that is bashing st. louis? I was/am genuinely curious, since the poll is so close and I have yet to see pictures of St. Louis to support it. I have nothing against St. Louis, I was curious about the architecture in these neighborhoods, so I asked for photos.
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Here are a few snapshots of Kenwood, a neighborhood that doesn't get talked about too much. This little place just east of Bronzeville on the South Side has some truly quirky homes, but also it's fair share of beautiful greystones, victorians, sfh's, rowhomes and flats. Lots of architectural beauty and variety in this one little generally unknown part of the SouthSide
No one has brought up Detroit's great residential disctricts such as Indian Village, Boston-Edison or Palmer Woods. Really, the homes in these areas are amazing.
Chicago is number 1. I don't think it gets the recognition it deserves. The average Chicagoan doesn't know where to find the really attractive neighborhoods, let alone visitors to the city. I admit I find a lot of charm even in hodgepodge neighborhoods with a lot of frame housing, though.
St. Louis is definitely number 2. There isn't a lot of variety, but if you like red brick like most people, you can experience miles and miles of it there. The inner city is like some old world lowrise Dublin/London type stuff, and the rest is a lumbering arts and crafts style.
This bungalow-vs-rowhome argument is moot. Rowhomes are mostly a few decades older than bungalows and thus were constructed near the center of cities. Comparing the urbanness of an attached home 2 miles from a city center with a single family home in a near suburb is pointless.
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