In-season Official 2023 SECRANT Southern Architecture Thread / Pre-Iron Bowl trash talk

So lets evolve this:

What are the Top 25 most beautiful southern architecture neighborhoods in the southern United States?


For instance, Archie's neighborhood in New Orleans, Garden District it's called? and the main stretch of Eufaula Alabama, whatever that neighborhood is called, etc...


Arkansas folks might try to include the Heights in Little Rock, and downtown Bentonville, for example...


St Augustine in Florida for sure - wow, so beautiful

I love Kirby's house in Athens. Anything with tons of rock defy the rule of "having to be" the beautiful Greek Revival and Southern Victorian, per se.


So direct from Spain (St Aug I guess) or direct from Scotland, to me that qualifies as being the best of the best

brainstorm of beautiful southern neighborhoods ole Harry Rex has witnessed, in no particular order of rank:

- neighborhood west of downtown Houston, Westheimer Road vicinity

- neighborhood west of OU campus in Norman, basically because they at least kept their old trees intact. So there, OU finally does something southern kidding, I like that neighborhood except for the F-word Biden signs in the yards I saw, or maybe it was Hillary or dipshit Bernie

- St Aug FL

- Garden District LA

- nothing in Missouri

- gorgeous neighborhood SW of the UK campus in Lexington, wow! So beautiful, no idea what the neighborhood is called

- same with the area SW of Vanderbilt in Nashville heading to Belmont and Lipscomb - also love that downtown Murfreesboro housing on the southern border of the Middle Tennessee State campus, near the downtown area of Murfreesboro where Martina McBride did her Independence Day song video

- Eufaula Fricking Alabama - gorgeous

- around the governor's mansion in north Atlanta

- I've never been to Savannah

- great southern architecture all over Mississippi and Alabama and Georgia and Louisiana - they're a blur

- Charleston, SC caught my eye as an 8 year old I guess, and later on a visit at age 22 or so, very beautiful, just can't pinpoint exactly where

- saw very beautiful neighborhoods in Charlottesville and Blacksburg and Chapel Hill, can't pinpoint where - way out of my element here just naming towns

- the Heights in Little Rock and downtown Bentonville, and plenty in downtown Fayetteville - we are very proud of those here in Arkansas




here is Greek Revival:






here is southern Victorian:







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nothing in Missouri

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St Louis is absolutely loaded with beautiful old mansions from the early 1900s.

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you're an idiot

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3 of my 4 points are verifiable facts and the lone outlier is a solid take.....sorry but Architects are engineers who took an art class and have even less ability to manage costs than an engineer does...thems just facts.

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3 of my 4 points are verifiable facts and the lone outlier is a solid take.....sorry but Architects are engineers who took an art class and have even less ability to manage costs than an engineer does...thems just facts.

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translation: you're a builder of shitty looking houses, and you build future ghettos called "housing developments with HOA's"

Prairieville, originally a Southern Dogtrot, now pure Southern Gothic

Archie's house in the garden with the Munsters/Adams Family fence