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New Orleans, especially the French Quarter. Some of the old Catholic churches of Chicago resemble the Renaissance and Baroque churches of Europe. Many of them were built for Polish congregations. Illinois once had over 50 Dutch style windmills operating across the state. Only five of them remain today and at least one, the Fabyan Windmill in Geneva, is open to the public. One surprise is the Old Salem historic district of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which has German architecture from its days as a colony of the Moravian religious sect. Outside the U.S., there is Willemstad, Curacao, in the Caribbean, which is a city full of Dutch Colonial architecture.
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Paramaribo also have large number of Dutch buildings...
Ohh Qingdao and Xiamen in China have lots of colonial architecture, Qingdao has the prettiest historical district in Asia in my opinion... Although most of the city don't look that German apart from the historical area but it have a strong European feel compared to many places in asia.
The capital of uzebkistan also have some nice russian architecture.
I know the OP discounted NYC, but it is full of Georgian, Dutch and Beaux-arts architecture.
New York was originally a Dutch colony and New York City was once called New Amsterdam. New York City is one of only a few places in the U.S. that has Art Nouveau architecture, which was very popular in Europe at the turn of the 20th Century.
Everywhere since all modern styles were born in Europe.
Not quite. The U.S. gave birth to some modern architectural movements. Chicago, Illinois was the birthplace of the skyscraper and home to the Chicago School, one of the earliest modern architectural movements. Out of the Chicago School came architects such as Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, who first achieved worldwide fame for his Prairie Style architecture.
The rural areas are studded with these fortified mansions built by returning Chinese traders, flushed with the styles of architecture they had seen abroad, in an eclectic mix:
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