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Richmond is certainly at the top of the list. The city has over 150 individual properties and 45 Districts containing hundreds of additional buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. The oldest dates from 1740. Nearly every conceivable architectural style is represented including Egyptian Revival and Jacobean Revival. Some of America's most noted architects are represented: Thomas Jefferson, Robert Mills, John Russell Pope, Thomas U. Walter, Carrere & Hastings, Elijah Myers, and Phillip Johnson to name a few. Some properties are quite special such as the Belgian Pavilion from the New York Worlds Fair of 1939, and a couple of magnificent Tudor manor houses built in England over 500 years ago and moved to Richmond in the 1920s.
When it comes to history and architecture, Richmond is the best kept secret in America, IMO.
One city you should add - Mobile. I was completely surprised by the Southern architecture which is similar to the big tourist cities. Totally under the radar but it is better that way.
Yes ! I always say that all the time. Mobile ,Al is extremly underrated and has a huge stock of histocric buildings. How can anyone mention about any historic architecture in Alabama without mentioning Mobile is crazy to me. I love that town and have returned every year since my first visit. Birmingham has a good stock of historic architecture but it does not hold a candle to Mobile. What i've found so intiresting about Mobile is that so much has been destroyed do to fire , weather , and urban renewal in the 50's yet that city is still loaded.
Mobile has Creole Cottages ,shot Gun style houses , neo classical , federal , art deco , Spanish Revival , a huge stock of Italinate , Greek Revival , Meditarranian , Victorian ,Queen Ann, Egytpian Revival , colonial, Gothic Revival , Tudor Revival , and so many more.
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Asheville's Art Deco downtown seems to be overlooked here...add in Biltmore Village and the Biltmore itself, plus the Grove Park Inn, and you have a remarkable collection of early 20th century styles.
Yes ! I always say that all the time. Mobile ,Al is extremly underrated and has a huge stock of histocric buildings. How can anyone mention about any historic architecture in Alabama without mentioning Mobile is crazy to me. I love that town and have returned every year since my first visit. Birmingham has a good stock of historic architecture but it does not hold a candle to Mobile. What i've found so intiresting about Mobile is that so much has been destroyed do to fire , weather , and urban renewal in the 50's yet that city is still loaded.
Mobile has Creole Cottages ,shot Gun style houses , neo classical , federal , art deco , Spanish Revival , a huge stock of Italinate , Greek Revival , Meditarranian , Victorian ,Queen Ann, Egytpian Revival , colonial, Gothic Revival , Tudor Revival , and so many more.
Regarding architectural design, I think Mobile has the best architecture in Alabama, especially being a huge fan of New Orleans architecture personally; and in most cases Mobile does fly under the radar in terms of distinct historic architecture. That being said, I also do think Birmingham has the largest variety of architecture in the state; most, if not all being built in the early 20th Century.
Whatever dude! I'm moving on, and I've stated my case. Whatever you choose, that's cool too.
you have. I'm afraid it hasn't convinced anyone else though...
I'd personally rate Dallas "not as awful as I expected", but still on the whole rather banal.
Personally, I think New Orleans wins. I've lived in Miami - aside from the Deco district and a few modern buildings of questionable virtue by architectonica, it's all utterly banal.
I'd give Charleston 2d, Savannah and Richmond tied for 3d.
Regarding architectural design, I think Mobile has the best architecture in Alabama, especially being a huge fan of New Orleans architecture personally; and in most cases Mobile does fly under the radar in terms of distinct historic architecture. That being said, I also do think Birmingham has the largest variety of architecture in the state; most, if not all being built in the early 20th Century.
Birmingham has a great variety but everything you have provided in the links are found in Mobile also but you guy's don't have some of the architetcure found in Mobile though. I have to make my way to Birmingham sometime it's an underrated city.
Surprisingly, no one has mentioned Norfolk, which arguably is in the top 5 of the south. My list would be Richmond, NoLa, Charleston, Norfolk, Atlanta
Norfolk has like 5 blocks worth of good architecture.
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