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Pointy, almost looks like an A frame in the front, brick home with a rounded door with only a driveway between homes and a fairly long front lawn with sidewalk. This style seems common in Detroit.
Well, w/o you saying so, I’d have thought this was Baltimore. A lot of that city looks like this.
Philly seems to have narrower streets than Baltimore in general. Also the Baltimore rowhomes seem to have a more uniform design to its rowhomes than Philly (which has a lot of variety) and they often lack porches, landings, and awnings like Philly does, their stairs seem to either be narrower and a lot of them are parallel to the home rather than perpendicular. However, these two cities are quite similar in their streetscapes and I will throw Wilmington, DE, which has a lot of similarities to both of those cities.
This streetscape screams Chicago to me. The architecture of the buildings, the two and three-flats, etc. All that's missing are the alleyways.
Would any of you immediately think Miami Beach viewing this streetscape? I can see how someone would mistake it for Los Angeles, even though there aren't any tall Mexican Fan Palms, but the Art Deco architecture details make it distinguishable.
This is a classic DC streetscape to me, however, I could see how someone could mistake it for say, Wilmington, Philly, or Richmond.
Coastal Maine roadside-- American elm on the left, spruce and fir here and there, orchard trees in the distance, narrow road, bumpy, no passing, abrupt hills, tough going on a bike... Nearby, a blueberry field along a dirt road. These are everywhere. Landowners have gathered the glacial boulders into piles recently to make it easier to harvest the blueberries. Fryeburg, Maine-- the Saco river intervale, a fertile lowland between the White Mountains in the distance and rocky upland soils to the east. A favorite resort for the Abenaki whose annual cycle of migration took them southward to seashore camps for the summer, northward to deep woods hunting camps in the winter, and back to their intervale villages for late fall feasting and spring fishing and planting. The Buttonball tree has been standing here in Sunderland, Mass, along the Connecticut River, since the American Revolution. Making a buck off the tourist trade here in Tannersville, New York, high up in the Catskills. Some people here resent "the city" -- i.e., New York City--for its huge water supply holdings in the Catskills, for its inexhaustible supply of entitled city people, and for its influence in getting the state to buy up most of the land hereabouts for Catskill Park.
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You can tell they were built when Hartford was more prosperous than Boston. It's a triple-decker but wider with further setback and built with high-end brick. They're turned into "Perfect Sixes" more often than in Boston. But 60 years of utter neglect and 40 years of rejuvenation in Boston has flipped the aesthetic appeal of these cities since ~1970.
Pointy, almost looks like an A frame in the front, brick home with a rounded door with only a driveway between homes and a fairly long front lawn with sidewalk. This style seems common in Detroit.
Detroit and Cleveland have a lot of neighborhoods that could be mistaken for each other. If the Detroit ones were a little more kept up, I would've mistaken it for parts of Kamm's Corners on the far west side.
Cleveland does have a home style that is unique, at least from what I have seen, "Cleveland doubles," that are all over the city. I've never seen this style outside of Cleveland (and it's inner ring suburbs) ... Actually, I think there is a couple scattered in Akron and Canton, but you won't see block after block of them. Yes, the up and down doubles are common in the Great Lakes cities, but this style is synonymous to Cleveland.
Without being too obvious with famous landmarks, what are some Google Street Views of various locations that just have "the look" of a certain place to you? As in, if someone blindfolded you, drove you there, and took off the blindfold, you could make a very good guess at your location?
I've moved around quite a bit in the Southeast. I'll start off with a couple of "typical views" from some places where I have lived.
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