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Location: Jefferson City 4 days a week, St. Louis 3 days a week
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Originally Posted by slengel
"half southern"? st. louis? not exactly sure what you mean by that, but perhaps you've never actually been to the south. st. louis feels culturally like detroit, cleveland, pittsburgh much moreso than memphis, nashville or atlanta.
Throw Louisville into that pile of cities which St. Louis is nothing like. Even Springfield, Missouri doesn't feel as southern as Louisville. Driving between STL and Louisville feels like a vertical trip rather than an almost horizontal one. Yep...same thing with Indy and Cincinnati. Kansas City also feels more like Minneapolis, Des Moines, and Omaha also than Tulsa or Dallas.
Location: Jefferson City 4 days a week, St. Louis 3 days a week
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tI would say that in general, the Midwest and Northeast have the most interesting architecture. Large Midwest cities and Northeast ones I would say have very classic, stylish architecture architecturally that the south and west just can't matchi. With regards to St. Louis, no city in the Midwest has an answer to the Arch. That IMO is architecture at its most stunning. How they built it and got it to stand was a truly amazing feat of engineering. St. Louis' bridges over the river, its large mixture of frame and brick, etc. is pretty interesting. Not to mention, many of its Catholic churches have a Gothic look and feel to them, similar to many in the Midwest. All those factories and steel mills along the river make it interesting too.
Location: Jefferson City 4 days a week, St. Louis 3 days a week
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Originally Posted by Natural510
I haven't been to St. Louis, but given the age of the city and its German influence, I'm sure it parallels Cincinnati quite nicely (which I chose for the poll).
Milwaukee actually has pretty interesting architecture for this reason as well..its German influence is just as heavy as those two cities.
1. Chicago - sheer scale and diversity unmatched obviously
2. St. Louis - best assortment of historic neighborhoods, would top Chicago if it didn't have so much blight and was larger
3. Cincinnati -most beautiful collection of rowhouse neighborhoods in the Midwest, Over The Rhine is amazing
All the other Midwestern cities have pretty indistinguishable architecture in my humble opinion
Chicago is number one in my opinion. The sheer variety of residential architecture in Chicago can only be rivaled by a few other cities in North America.
I agree with a lot of the others in their praise for St. Louis and Cincinnati. They both have some great historic residential neighborhoods.
Detroit has (or had) some amazing residential architecture, but I honestly don't know how much of it is even in tact these days.
Milwaukee had some attractive neighborhoods due to it's utilization of Lake Michigan, but the architecture itself was nothing special for the most part.
St. Louis and Cincy have better residential architecture than Chicago. I don't know what the Midwest love affair is with bungalows and flats. The top neighborhoods in cities on the east coast feature row houses. From Boston to NYC to Phillty to Baltimore to DC. Row houses are much more urban and architecturally better. St. Louis has some great neighborhoods in this regard.
I've been in rowhouses in DC and Baltimore, they're great. I like the use of space. But if you grow up with the big old wood frame houses or brick bungalows, you appreciate their beauty, too.
I'm definitely an East coast cat. I'll jump over a dozen bungalows to get to one row house. There's just something impressive about looking down a street and seeing a solid block of attached houses. That's when you know you're in the city.
I know I have an east coat bias because I grew up in a row house in DC and in BK. I just don't like flats and bungalows. They look like they are about the blow away. Plus, I hate the ones with the yard parking space. It screams surburbia. DC has bungalows too. I hate them with a passion.
Location: Pittsburgh (via Chicago, via Pittsburgh)
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lots of you are forgetting that Chicago HAS row homes, brownstones, greystones, and just about every other architectural variation you are talking about.
And although not technically 'rowhouses'...I'm not so sure I would "jump over" an opportunity of living on this street. http://goo.gl/maps/HIAY
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