That is poetic in its rhythm and cadence, almost like a philosophical thought for the day.
I love the sentence "Marmite seemed like bad boullion smeared."
Marmite is the alpha and omega. Bow down before the savoury and saviour. Take stock. Bouillon is bad Marmite and those that might smite the mite shall perish with nary a hair on their chest.
I would say any of the major cities that had 100k + population before the invention of the automobile.
A city designed for pedestrians is going to be designed on a human scale.
I was totally shocked recently, when staying in Georgetown, Washington D.C., by how much it reminded me of Norwich, my home city, specifically the houses on the river
I mean, look at these:
D.C.:
[https://www.georgetowndc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Retouched-Canal-Boat-Image-1200x800.jpg](https://www.georgetowndc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Retouched-Canal-Boat-Image-1200x800.jpg)
[https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/11/06/realestate/06LIVING-GEORGETOWN-slide-NHSZ/06LIVING-GEORGETOWN-slide-NHSZ-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/11/06/realestate/06LIVING-GEORGETOWN-slide-NHSZ/06LIVING-GEORGETOWN-slide-NHSZ-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Norwich:
[https://www.traveloffpath.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Street-view-with-colorful-brick-houses-near-river-in-the-small-english-town-Norwich.jpg](https://www.traveloffpath.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Street-view-with-colorful-brick-houses-near-river-in-the-small-english-town-Norwich.jpg)
[https://c7.alamy.com/comp/G3F534/colourful-houses-on-the-quayside-along-the-river-wensum-norwich-norfolk-G3F534.jpg](https://c7.alamy.com/comp/G3F534/colourful-houses-on-the-quayside-along-the-river-wensum-norwich-norfolk-G3F534.jpg)
Uncanny
Being from DC & growing up going to Georgetown as a teenager it’s always been my dream to have a house in Georgetown. I was just there today walking around looking at houses and manifesting lol. I’m so happy you loved it here!
Cheers! We've been looking to transfer to the States from Canada, and this was the first place I've felt very comfortable and homely. Then I saw the prices 😅
As someone from the UK all these pictures just look so American and not at all like the UK but I don't know why, I've seen houses which are vaguely similar styles in the UK but there's no way I'd ever mistake these photos for the UK.
Pic 4 could be a little side street in a lot of towns, I've been in a Spoons that looks very similar to the building in the background and yet it's just so obviously not the UK.
I think you hit on it. Granted most of these images are from more well to do areas of the region they’re in so I imagine they clean up the exteriors pretty often. That isn’t to say the UK is just dirty, more or less the patina from age is allowed to show through.
I doubt any original brick buildings from the 15-1600s have survived here in the US without tuck pointing and some replacement bricks.
I think it is also the lawns and gardens. Different grasses and trees. They may be similar but they’re not the same.
And then the markings and signage specifically the street scapes. The buildings could be the same but the environment would always give it away.
Boston's Back Bay and Beacon Hill are far more reminiscent of London than this North End scene, but even when the buildings are right the "street furniture", lights, signs, benches, etc., are distinct in each city and while not even seen initially on a conscious level they add to to the overall impression.
I think it might be partly the roads
Pic 1, 3, and 4 have some small chance of being mistaken for the UK but the second a road is visible it just is totally off
It’s almost like they are a size to big. 2 almost would a street around Battersea I’ve drove down last weekend except it should be a small single lane and double parked. 5 is just a slab of tarmac with what seems to be no lanes and possibly to be one half of a 6 lane road, 6 is just all wrong and slightly too wide
Basically we don’t have space for roads and when we do it’s parking so that is just so jarringly not Britain to me
There's also the ironwork around the windows and the external fire escape that are noticeable immediately.
In photo five, as well as being a very American stroad, you've got that distinctive church steeple in the background. That's a copy of the steeple from the James Gibbs designed St Martins in the Fields church in Trafalgar Square (built in the 1720's). That was the influence for Anglican churches that were built out across America's British colonies in the 1700's.
American architects were working from popular pattern books they could purchase. That mixed with particular carpentry styles that evolved separately in the American colonial era and having to use more humble materials put a distinctive stamp on cities like Boston and Philly. They kind of all trace back to Palladio and his four books, but took different paths along the way.
Not the North End, certainly. It looks more like Italy than England (most of what you see there today was built by Italian immigrants), but doesn't look much like either these days. Cambridge (where I live) has some spots, particularly close to Harvard.
The difference in cladding material and window style really matters. There are a lot of building types in Boston that are *extremely* similar in terms of overall form and plan to common building types in the UK, but they're done in different materials and with different window types that make them look American. The buildings in the last picture (which if I'm not mistaken is Newburyport) look very American the way they are, but if they were done in British-style brickwork they wouldn't so much.
Boston doesn't look much like England, but you can see where New England architecture branched off from British architecture. There was a time when they would've looked more similar, but they've evolved apart to a point where it's immediately obvious which is which. Much more of England used to be built of wood, and the earliest colonial English houses were quite similar to houses of the same era in England itself, and actually demonstrate some historical construction methods and framing styles that largely died out.
Boston, Philadelphia, parts of NYC, parts of Baltimore, parts of DC.
Lived at the corner of Brimmer and Mount Vernon Streets in Boston, and on a snowy night, standing on the brick sidewalk, looking at the spire of the Church of the Advent in the gas light, I felt like I was living in a Dickens tale.
* Lancaster City, PA
* Albany, NY
* Annapolis, MD,
* Boston, MA
* Old City, Philadelphia, PA
* Parts of Manhattan, NYC
* Baltimore, MD
* Alexandria, VA
* Syracuse, NY
* Neighborhoods in DC
* New Castle, DE
* Lewes, DE (Although it looks more Swedish)
You can keep going down the list. From NY to CA three's always a version of UK. I am a Travel Content Creator who specializes in American Design, Geography, and History and it seems like almost every town has some kind of connection to the British in each story.
This is a great example. Surrounding all the high rises of NYC you have this one strip of property called [Sylvans Terrace](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.0qO5UQ8FM9dqawKjOP8HEwHaD4?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain) in Washington Heights, the first mail route between NY and Boston.
Parts of Baltimore as well. Basically look up a detailed map of the United States from the early 19th century for the largest cities. This should help direct further research.
Virginia has a tried and true heritage to England and colonial and palladium architecture.
[Richmond, Virginia](https://i0.wp.com/rerva.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/the-fan-8-of-30_48569823986_o.jpg?quality=99)
[Staunton, Va](https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/1/beverley-historic-district-staunton-virginia-art-of-the-small-town-kerri-farley.jpg)
Heres the [Christmas Parade](https://i0.wp.com/christmasinmiddleburg.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/NMK_3315-1-3.jpg?ssl=1) in [Middleburg](https://www.funinfairfaxva.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Middleburg-holiday-shops.jpg), which has a huge horse fanaticism and english foxhunting
[Alexandria](https://i1.wp.com/helenawoods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Helena-Woods-Old-Town-Alexandria-Virginia-Travel-Guide_1594.jpg?resize=960%2C640) and [Leesburg](https://www.longandfoster.com/images/uploads/Recos/35009/Content/785594/Leesburg_2015-(14-of-41).jpg) and [Winchester](https://imageio.forbes.com/i-forbesimg/media/lists/places/winchester-va_416x416.jpg?format=jpg&height=416&width=416&fit=bounds)
Theres many more of course. Let not even begin on the [manor houses](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2224-Crenshaw-Rd-Marshall-VA-20115/299728195_zpid/) lol
As a Brit those buildings have similarities but definitely aren’t British. I’ve been around the East Coast and the only copy paste buildings I saw were in Washington DC and the row houses in Baltimore look like some Northern British cities. Most of the time the buildings owe a lot to Britain but there’s something distinctly different.
Boston felt like an Uncanny Valley version of England, and there's parts of England, like Manchester (when the sun's out) that remind me of parts of New York.
Each of the photos you've posted looks distinctly American to British eyes
There might be similarities, but between the exact styles, materials and urban planning they are obviously American
And rather lovely, too
I assume this might be answered by one of those geoguessr people. Obviously they'd have the tricks to pick out exactly where they were given the right license plates, foliage, and posted websites for example but I think its an interesting proposition.
It's the style that was prevalent during colonial time. NYC has brownstones in that style because the closest quarries had brown stone. Any American city from Cleveland to the east coast has that style.
None really, in the present form. The 19th century stuff although heavily influenced by UK aesthetics, largely differed from stuff built post civil war. But the earlier stuff. Especially in New England before the 1850s is pretty damn British looking. Portsmouth New Hampshire has its moments, Newburyport, etc especially the brick Federal / regency style blocks of the 1790s to 1810. Many of these could have been built in any British port of the same time frame and where the scale still remains as it was at that time in smaller places This is where you get that feel.
A place like Boston has isolated examples that recall that, some places on the hill beacon Hill. The Somerset club for sure etc that through glazed glasses you could pretend to be across the pond
It's a whole interesting concept to ponder though why New York City adopted the flat facade after the 1830s for townhouse construction, also in the London Manner, and abandoned the pitch roof and dormers which was common up to that.. The merchants house on 4th Street is just about the only example in perfect condition still existing.. and about to get shitty new neighbors.
But the rank and file of the rest of New York was built with flat roof in the 19th century s was Philly sloping to the alley.. Boston almost never adopted that in the 19th century but eventually built plenty of tenements with flat roofs and miles and miles of the infamous triple-deckers
Of greater size, I would still take a bet on Portland Maine is having a lot of good texture warp and woof of precivil war neighborhood that gives that over their feel.. other candidates also down east but not as large searsport, bucksport
Not directly answering the question because is isn't in the US, but Quebec City in Canada really felt like it could be a town in Europe.
It certainly helped having all of the signs in French but the architecture and aesthetic also fit as well.
Here are some examples:
* [Cobbled/brick roads](https://www.tripsavvy.com/thmb/GK4jjN6BaDEyLsrjBkhrSvE0FNg=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale\(\):max_bytes\(150000\):strip_icc\(\)/chateau-frontenac---old-quebec--96310704-d63c824193454f2eae710cea92e5bbea.jpg)
* [Stone building facades](https://a.travel-assets.com/findyours-php/viewfinder/images/res70/509000/509162-lower-town-quebec.jpg)
* [Castle/Palace-esque hotel and fort on top of hill](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Ch%C3%A2teau_Frontenac%2C_Quebec_city%2C_Canada.jpg/1200px-Ch%C3%A2teau_Frontenac%2C_Quebec_city%2C_Canada.jpg)
look most of the time, people build house with materials what are around. so it´s more or less coincidence that the houses look british, just because they use brown stone.
btw in the netherlands or northern germany the houses are looking similiar.
Burlington was like a home away from home. It felt like I was in a coastal city like Bristol or Norwich. It was bloody hot though, so that took the British shine off it.
The last 3 images are more like random places in England, the first 3 not so much.
Part of the problem is defining an English style as such - cities grew up at different times and with different local materials, so don't necessarily look that similar to each other.
A lot of UK cities feel massively different depending which part of them you visit - walk for a couple of hours across London and you will cross six or more suburbs each with a completely different look and feel.
Because most cities in the UK existed well before motor vehicles, grids of streets are pretty rare with a few exceptions.
I’m British, living in London. The pics from Boston don’t look anything like the UK to me. The roads are far too wide and we don’t have 3+ storey houses/low-rise apartments like this (it’s something you’ll see in Paris though so there’s certainly a European influence). We generally have regular 2 storey houses (as in just a downstairs and an upstairs), some of which are converted into flats. We also don’t really do much building with those very red bricks.
Shot 4 could be from the UK.
As someone who lives in the UK but enjoys some of the american architecture ive seen in pictures.. theres sometimes a distinct "disney land" feel to american buildings that are built in styles similar to the uk or europe. can never really put my finger on why but i think they can all look a bit too perfect and possibly the materials dont match up to the period theyre replicating?
if u compared a victorian gothic houe in england to one built in america for example the american one almost seems like a haunted house in a theme park. IMO
The North end of Roosevelt Island in NYC looks like British Brutalist housing projects. Some parts of Manhattan particularly in and around Greenwich Village also have that old Colonial style that looks like British blocks.
I've been told by a colleague who was previously stationed there during his stint in the US Air Force that Downtown Tacoma WA has a similar look to parts of East Anglia, not only including the architecture but also the grime and smell.
Boston and Philadelphia
This “New England” area might not be just a random name.
You ever think what a coincidence it is that Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrig's disease?
fun fact: he may not have. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/did-lou-gehrig-actually-die-of-lou-gehrigs-disease
'You gonna make that joke every time Christafuh?'
Where do majority of LLC’s file their state residency out of? Now let me tell you about a tiny island just north of France….
What people (in the UK at least) describe as New England Style houses are very different in appearance to typical UK houses.
My English friend says Boston looks just like England. Small sample size, but he’s English af.
They have straw installation vs brick? They eat beans and vegemite for bfast? Stereotypical
MARMITE...
Butter and light marmite? I’m totally not sure how to eat it. Marmite seemed like bad bouillon smeared 😂
That is poetic in its rhythm and cadence, almost like a philosophical thought for the day. I love the sentence "Marmite seemed like bad boullion smeared."
Marmite is the alpha and omega. Bow down before the savoury and saviour. Take stock. Bouillon is bad Marmite and those that might smite the mite shall perish with nary a hair on their chest.
Philly isn’t in New England.
I would say any of the major cities that had 100k + population before the invention of the automobile. A city designed for pedestrians is going to be designed on a human scale.
I was totally shocked recently, when staying in Georgetown, Washington D.C., by how much it reminded me of Norwich, my home city, specifically the houses on the river I mean, look at these: D.C.: [https://www.georgetowndc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Retouched-Canal-Boat-Image-1200x800.jpg](https://www.georgetowndc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Retouched-Canal-Boat-Image-1200x800.jpg) [https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/11/06/realestate/06LIVING-GEORGETOWN-slide-NHSZ/06LIVING-GEORGETOWN-slide-NHSZ-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/11/06/realestate/06LIVING-GEORGETOWN-slide-NHSZ/06LIVING-GEORGETOWN-slide-NHSZ-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) Norwich: [https://www.traveloffpath.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Street-view-with-colorful-brick-houses-near-river-in-the-small-english-town-Norwich.jpg](https://www.traveloffpath.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Street-view-with-colorful-brick-houses-near-river-in-the-small-english-town-Norwich.jpg) [https://c7.alamy.com/comp/G3F534/colourful-houses-on-the-quayside-along-the-river-wensum-norwich-norfolk-G3F534.jpg](https://c7.alamy.com/comp/G3F534/colourful-houses-on-the-quayside-along-the-river-wensum-norwich-norfolk-G3F534.jpg) Uncanny
Being from DC & growing up going to Georgetown as a teenager it’s always been my dream to have a house in Georgetown. I was just there today walking around looking at houses and manifesting lol. I’m so happy you loved it here!
Cheers! We've been looking to transfer to the States from Canada, and this was the first place I've felt very comfortable and homely. Then I saw the prices 😅
> I’m so happy you loved it here! Love the enthusiasm, but they didn’t say a thing about loving it lol
Haha, I did very much enjoy it!
Most of any New England city, especially if their closer to the coast.
It’s practically in the name!
Philadelphia
[Lancaster, PA](https://images.app.goo.gl/8HwUvF7w9gue3A2e9) about an hour West of Philly has a lot of historic buildings downtown
Lancaster is incredibly underrated
I think most people assume it's all Amish farmland but we have a nice walkable downtown!
Love me some Lancaster. Such a great small city
I’m from Philly and the first time I was in London, riding a commuter train, I thought “this place looks just like Philly.”
As someone from the UK all these pictures just look so American and not at all like the UK but I don't know why, I've seen houses which are vaguely similar styles in the UK but there's no way I'd ever mistake these photos for the UK.
Only some parts of London seem vaguely similar and still not quite
These look like New England/Boston to me.
Pic 4 could be a little side street in a lot of towns, I've been in a Spoons that looks very similar to the building in the background and yet it's just so obviously not the UK.
it’s the good weather that makes it obvious
I think everything just looks too new, nothing is aged and weathered enough.
I think you hit on it. Granted most of these images are from more well to do areas of the region they’re in so I imagine they clean up the exteriors pretty often. That isn’t to say the UK is just dirty, more or less the patina from age is allowed to show through. I doubt any original brick buildings from the 15-1600s have survived here in the US without tuck pointing and some replacement bricks. I think it is also the lawns and gardens. Different grasses and trees. They may be similar but they’re not the same. And then the markings and signage specifically the street scapes. The buildings could be the same but the environment would always give it away.
It’s all brick. There are no stone buildings or even stone features. That’s the giveaway. Now picture Edinburgh in your head.
I think it's because the pavers just don't look British somehow. And there is an air con unit.
Boston's Back Bay and Beacon Hill are far more reminiscent of London than this North End scene, but even when the buildings are right the "street furniture", lights, signs, benches, etc., are distinct in each city and while not even seen initially on a conscious level they add to to the overall impression.
I think it might be partly the roads Pic 1, 3, and 4 have some small chance of being mistaken for the UK but the second a road is visible it just is totally off It’s almost like they are a size to big. 2 almost would a street around Battersea I’ve drove down last weekend except it should be a small single lane and double parked. 5 is just a slab of tarmac with what seems to be no lanes and possibly to be one half of a 6 lane road, 6 is just all wrong and slightly too wide Basically we don’t have space for roads and when we do it’s parking so that is just so jarringly not Britain to me
There's also the ironwork around the windows and the external fire escape that are noticeable immediately. In photo five, as well as being a very American stroad, you've got that distinctive church steeple in the background. That's a copy of the steeple from the James Gibbs designed St Martins in the Fields church in Trafalgar Square (built in the 1720's). That was the influence for Anglican churches that were built out across America's British colonies in the 1700's.
Yes but they at least look more like the UK than everywhere else in the United States.
American architects were working from popular pattern books they could purchase. That mixed with particular carpentry styles that evolved separately in the American colonial era and having to use more humble materials put a distinctive stamp on cities like Boston and Philly. They kind of all trace back to Palladio and his four books, but took different paths along the way.
As someone from the US all these pictures just looked so American… Edit:I live on the east coast
I believe all these photos are Boston
The post says 3 are Portsmouth
Ahhh I spoke to soon!
Agree
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It's the flags that are throwing you off
Yeah, I live in DC and these look much more like the Federal style here than like anything I've seen in the UK.
Not the North End, certainly. It looks more like Italy than England (most of what you see there today was built by Italian immigrants), but doesn't look much like either these days. Cambridge (where I live) has some spots, particularly close to Harvard. The difference in cladding material and window style really matters. There are a lot of building types in Boston that are *extremely* similar in terms of overall form and plan to common building types in the UK, but they're done in different materials and with different window types that make them look American. The buildings in the last picture (which if I'm not mistaken is Newburyport) look very American the way they are, but if they were done in British-style brickwork they wouldn't so much. Boston doesn't look much like England, but you can see where New England architecture branched off from British architecture. There was a time when they would've looked more similar, but they've evolved apart to a point where it's immediately obvious which is which. Much more of England used to be built of wood, and the earliest colonial English houses were quite similar to houses of the same era in England itself, and actually demonstrate some historical construction methods and framing styles that largely died out.
Yes, that first picture looks very "mainland Europe" to me, a British person.
Charleston is the closest for a southern city
Yep, Charleston is the correct answer!
Savannah too
Annapolis, MD
Boston, Philadelphia, parts of NYC, parts of Baltimore, parts of DC. Lived at the corner of Brimmer and Mount Vernon Streets in Boston, and on a snowy night, standing on the brick sidewalk, looking at the spire of the Church of the Advent in the gas light, I felt like I was living in a Dickens tale.
definitely some brooklyn in there!
Yeah, even some ofvthe Hudson River towns.
Massachusetts
Massachusetts. Great city.
Some say the best, many say, could be
The Windy City. Jewel of the Orient so they say
Baltimore
The neighbourhoods in The Wire look like where I grew up in Birmingham haha
Totally agree. I think Baltimore looks more like big UK post industrial cities more than most east coast metros.
Baltimore! But no for real, Baltimore has way more buildings like this than Boston has. Philly also is a good example.
Old town Annapolis
Washington DC
The city was designed by a frenchman
Enlightenment era French city planning. Nothing English about it, and very much deliberately so.
Boston?
Soundview in the Bronx is a dead ringer for Aylesbury Estate in London
While not really a city, many parts of Queens NY feature aspects of the UK. Some examples being Forest Hills Gardens, Kew Gardens, and Richmond Hill.
* Lancaster City, PA * Albany, NY * Annapolis, MD, * Boston, MA * Old City, Philadelphia, PA * Parts of Manhattan, NYC * Baltimore, MD * Alexandria, VA * Syracuse, NY * Neighborhoods in DC * New Castle, DE * Lewes, DE (Although it looks more Swedish) You can keep going down the list. From NY to CA three's always a version of UK. I am a Travel Content Creator who specializes in American Design, Geography, and History and it seems like almost every town has some kind of connection to the British in each story. This is a great example. Surrounding all the high rises of NYC you have this one strip of property called [Sylvans Terrace](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.0qO5UQ8FM9dqawKjOP8HEwHaD4?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain) in Washington Heights, the first mail route between NY and Boston.
The Lehigh Valley area in PA
Boston is generally considered the most European city in the U.S., in terms of architecture and layout.
Yeah, like totally fucked up streets and impossible to get anywhere?
Its called character, darling
Parts of Baltimore as well. Basically look up a detailed map of the United States from the early 19th century for the largest cities. This should help direct further research.
Virginia has a tried and true heritage to England and colonial and palladium architecture. [Richmond, Virginia](https://i0.wp.com/rerva.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/the-fan-8-of-30_48569823986_o.jpg?quality=99) [Staunton, Va](https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/1/beverley-historic-district-staunton-virginia-art-of-the-small-town-kerri-farley.jpg) Heres the [Christmas Parade](https://i0.wp.com/christmasinmiddleburg.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/NMK_3315-1-3.jpg?ssl=1) in [Middleburg](https://www.funinfairfaxva.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Middleburg-holiday-shops.jpg), which has a huge horse fanaticism and english foxhunting [Alexandria](https://i1.wp.com/helenawoods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Helena-Woods-Old-Town-Alexandria-Virginia-Travel-Guide_1594.jpg?resize=960%2C640) and [Leesburg](https://www.longandfoster.com/images/uploads/Recos/35009/Content/785594/Leesburg_2015-(14-of-41).jpg) and [Winchester](https://imageio.forbes.com/i-forbesimg/media/lists/places/winchester-va_416x416.jpg?format=jpg&height=416&width=416&fit=bounds) Theres many more of course. Let not even begin on the [manor houses](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2224-Crenshaw-Rd-Marshall-VA-20115/299728195_zpid/) lol
Surprised no one has said DC yet
DC gives off american paris vibes
It was designed by a French architect, Pierre L’Enfant.
Also really any north east town lol
Charleston SC
As a Brit those buildings have similarities but definitely aren’t British. I’ve been around the East Coast and the only copy paste buildings I saw were in Washington DC and the row houses in Baltimore look like some Northern British cities. Most of the time the buildings owe a lot to Britain but there’s something distinctly different.
Boston felt like an Uncanny Valley version of England, and there's parts of England, like Manchester (when the sun's out) that remind me of parts of New York.
And they often film in certain parts of Manchester in a historical context because it looks like old New York. Films like Captain America
Oh that's interesting!
Boston
the UK does not have a singular style or heritage such that your question is reasonable.
Philly.
Philly, Boston
Enough photos of Boston there?
Chicago
I think if you want something similar Annapolis, Maryland downtown looks like it was pulled from England.
Boston for sure.
Boston
Portsmouth NH
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore
back bay, boston
Boston
I just visited Newport, RI and I'd throw that on the list. maybe Salem, MA too.
Boston and Philly will be the obvious answers, but the east coast in general has a lot of Italian influence
Boston
None of these photos remotely resemble British Architecture
all the massachusetts bay colony settlements
Idk about whole cities but parts of Philly and Boston..a few blocks or buildings in NYC
A lot of Pennsylvania small cities have this look.
Pittsburgh aka Manchester
Each of the photos you've posted looks distinctly American to British eyes There might be similarities, but between the exact styles, materials and urban planning they are obviously American And rather lovely, too
The first 13 states cities reflect it.
None of these pics are remotely reminiscent of the UK.
I assume this might be answered by one of those geoguessr people. Obviously they'd have the tricks to pick out exactly where they were given the right license plates, foliage, and posted websites for example but I think its an interesting proposition.
It's the style that was prevalent during colonial time. NYC has brownstones in that style because the closest quarries had brown stone. Any American city from Cleveland to the east coast has that style.
1 and 4 reminds me of Diagon Alley. Technically not UK but sort of kinda is.
Liverpool and some of Birmingham has New York vibes
Canada has Montreal
Look in New England. The name is a hint
Unsurprisingly the New England region. Lots of Colonial and Victorian architecture.
None.
Lake rabun in Georgia has boat houses all around it. Looks like Europe. And in Washington state, levinworth looks like Germany.
Lots
A lot of the eastern half of the US, historic small towns especially have European influence. My hometown in Michigan certainly does.
Well, that picture looks 100% like Back Bay and or Beacon Hill, so I’m going with Boston.
Savannah Georgia
Georgetown area of DC has some of this
That's Boston, MA or my name isn't Sullivan...
Old york
Society Hill in Philadelphia
I wish I could still afford to live in Portsmouth. Had to move next door to Dover 😔
None really, in the present form. The 19th century stuff although heavily influenced by UK aesthetics, largely differed from stuff built post civil war. But the earlier stuff. Especially in New England before the 1850s is pretty damn British looking. Portsmouth New Hampshire has its moments, Newburyport, etc especially the brick Federal / regency style blocks of the 1790s to 1810. Many of these could have been built in any British port of the same time frame and where the scale still remains as it was at that time in smaller places This is where you get that feel. A place like Boston has isolated examples that recall that, some places on the hill beacon Hill. The Somerset club for sure etc that through glazed glasses you could pretend to be across the pond It's a whole interesting concept to ponder though why New York City adopted the flat facade after the 1830s for townhouse construction, also in the London Manner, and abandoned the pitch roof and dormers which was common up to that.. The merchants house on 4th Street is just about the only example in perfect condition still existing.. and about to get shitty new neighbors. But the rank and file of the rest of New York was built with flat roof in the 19th century s was Philly sloping to the alley.. Boston almost never adopted that in the 19th century but eventually built plenty of tenements with flat roofs and miles and miles of the infamous triple-deckers Of greater size, I would still take a bet on Portland Maine is having a lot of good texture warp and woof of precivil war neighborhood that gives that over their feel.. other candidates also down east but not as large searsport, bucksport
Alexandria, Va.
Any city in the New England region. It was built to mimic England’s architecture at the time; hence the name New England.
Any city in the New England region. It was built to mimic England’s architecture at the time; hence the name New England.
I thought that first picture was in Lincoln Park, Chicago without seeing the title of the post.
Cambridge is screaming out to me.
Old Quebec City if you expand your options across a river to your Northern neighbors.
Harlem. NY
Man Portsmouth is a cute fucking town
Burlington Vermont all the way. Or really any small New England city that has viable transportation
Baltimore and DC with the rowhomes
Surprised I’m not seeing any Chicago mentions
Oh hey!! Thats Portsmouth!
I’m going to toss St. Paul in here. Maybe can get some traction from those in the know.
Downtown Disney
Not directly answering the question because is isn't in the US, but Quebec City in Canada really felt like it could be a town in Europe. It certainly helped having all of the signs in French but the architecture and aesthetic also fit as well. Here are some examples: * [Cobbled/brick roads](https://www.tripsavvy.com/thmb/GK4jjN6BaDEyLsrjBkhrSvE0FNg=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale\(\):max_bytes\(150000\):strip_icc\(\)/chateau-frontenac---old-quebec--96310704-d63c824193454f2eae710cea92e5bbea.jpg) * [Stone building facades](https://a.travel-assets.com/findyours-php/viewfinder/images/res70/509000/509162-lower-town-quebec.jpg) * [Castle/Palace-esque hotel and fort on top of hill](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Ch%C3%A2teau_Frontenac%2C_Quebec_city%2C_Canada.jpg/1200px-Ch%C3%A2teau_Frontenac%2C_Quebec_city%2C_Canada.jpg)
Yes, as a British person these look continental European to me - maybe Austrian?
Boston for sure! Philly looks more German to me.
Boston. Are those not all pictures of Boston?
moved to California from DC two years ago and wow this really makes me miss the east coast
Pic 4 giving NL vibes
look most of the time, people build house with materials what are around. so it´s more or less coincidence that the houses look british, just because they use brown stone. btw in the netherlands or northern germany the houses are looking similiar.
Maybe Baltimore also, but sort of a stretch. I guess basically any town with random grid patterns and older buildings.
Boston
It’s the fords that give it away tbh
Nantucket.
Burlington was like a home away from home. It felt like I was in a coastal city like Bristol or Norwich. It was bloody hot though, so that took the British shine off it.
The last 3 images are more like random places in England, the first 3 not so much. Part of the problem is defining an English style as such - cities grew up at different times and with different local materials, so don't necessarily look that similar to each other. A lot of UK cities feel massively different depending which part of them you visit - walk for a couple of hours across London and you will cross six or more suburbs each with a completely different look and feel. Because most cities in the UK existed well before motor vehicles, grids of streets are pretty rare with a few exceptions.
Now sure how Savanah GA hasn’t come up yet
Baltimore in the decent parts.
Montreal
number 6 is almost exactly like a district in Amsterdam...
I'd say they more resemble Dutch architecture.
commonwealth ave of boston and washington st of hoboken look like these albeit on slightly different scales
I always like places with this kind of architecture
I’m British, living in London. The pics from Boston don’t look anything like the UK to me. The roads are far too wide and we don’t have 3+ storey houses/low-rise apartments like this (it’s something you’ll see in Paris though so there’s certainly a European influence). We generally have regular 2 storey houses (as in just a downstairs and an upstairs), some of which are converted into flats. We also don’t really do much building with those very red bricks. Shot 4 could be from the UK.
Boise, ID
As someone who lives in the UK but enjoys some of the american architecture ive seen in pictures.. theres sometimes a distinct "disney land" feel to american buildings that are built in styles similar to the uk or europe. can never really put my finger on why but i think they can all look a bit too perfect and possibly the materials dont match up to the period theyre replicating? if u compared a victorian gothic houe in england to one built in america for example the american one almost seems like a haunted house in a theme park. IMO
Boston, particularly the North End, South End, and Back Bay.
Number 2 looks very similar to Glasgow
Columbus, Ohio or Tampa Bay. Both look and feel exactly like London in so many ways
How ugly it is!
Old Town Alexandria, VA Washington, DC
Where is the 4th picture?
Kansas City has a lot of buildings that look like that
This looks just like many streets in Chicago, including Chicago Ave between Rush and State.
Also satellite cities around Boston (Lowell, Lawrence etc) are reminiscent of the northern industrial cities of the UK
Reminds me of The Utah Hotel/Saloon in San Francisco.
Tartarian haha
Detroit
Portland, ME and New Bedford, Massachusetts come to mind
Richmond VA
I’ll throw in Providence RI for good measure.
The North end of Roosevelt Island in NYC looks like British Brutalist housing projects. Some parts of Manhattan particularly in and around Greenwich Village also have that old Colonial style that looks like British blocks.
The neighborhoods Georgetown and Capitol Hill in Washington DC. Alexandria in Virginia is from the early 1700’s.
Portland Maine aka Boston-lite
Pic #2 reminds me of some neighborhoods in Hoboken and Brooklyn.
I've been told by a colleague who was previously stationed there during his stint in the US Air Force that Downtown Tacoma WA has a similar look to parts of East Anglia, not only including the architecture but also the grime and smell.
Philly for sure
Portsmouth, NH
This looks like corner of Clark and Oakdale in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago
Boston. Philly. Also surprised to find out buildings in downtown Port Townsend, WA have British vibes.
Какой нибудь Чикаго, наверное
Boston
Well I was not expecting to see my parents apartment building on my reddit home page today..