Does your city have any notable buildings or building styles that could have been transplanted from the UK? These could be historical buildings, or more recent ones; they could be modest or grandiose.
When I think of British-style buildings over more American forms, I tend to think of things like:
- Georgian classical architecture made out of stone (Americans have less of this; and they seem to have torn down more of it during the late 1800s)
- Neo-Romanesque architecture of the Edwardian/late-Victorian era
- Streamline moderne moreso than Art Deco
- Euro-inspired housing projects of the late 1960s-1970s (e.g. False Creek south in Vancouver doesn't look like any affordable housing built in the US)
And little stuff. Houses like
these on the right don't really look American, are much smaller than what was built in the US at the time, and they're actually built with things like brick structural walls (on the exterior) rather than wood framing.
But I'm not an expert on this, and I'd love to get more information from people who may know more about these things.
Anyway, compared to other former British Empire countries like Australia or South Africa, we probably have a lot less, but I think we have noticeably more of these building styles than comparable American cities.