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We can agree to disagree on which city would be better on this thread, but it's a fact that you chose Capitol Hill for DC and a working-class neighborhood for Philly that is quite close to some neighborhoods that were downright no-go zones up until a few years ago.
For what it’s worth, I think these examples you posted are absolutely beautiful. Honestly, I wish DC had an example neighborhood with brownstones, as all of our housing stock consists of brick.
New York, Chicago & Boston, and to a far lesser extent (DC) together are the closest thing this side of the Atlantic to Amsterdam.
Honorable mention: None.
I think Philadelphia actually makes the closest argument on similarities to Amsterdam relative to this thread(I remember a Dutch colleague in the past actually making that comparison); Boston and New York's more ornate/brownstone-based architecture reminds me much more of the UK, like London or Edinborough.
DC's layout is very European, no doubt, but its rowhome appearance is arguably the least European out of this bunch, if only because of the more common setbacks/front greenery (ditto for Chicago, although of course not technically part of this thread).
I withdraw my prior comment - those are indeed bowfronts.
So Boston and Baltimore, then.
Yeah, another poster already shared some streetview links that show Baltimore bowfronts in post #50 on this thread.
Though, I think KodeBlue’s example is even more similar to rows in Boston than any of the three examples from post 50.
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