Posted on Saturday, 2nd July 2011 by Charles Melvin

Here at REALTOR.com we love houses, we love time-travel (at least, this writer does), and we also love a good holiday-related photo post. So, for the 4th of July this year, we decided to create an alternate history in which the British are somehow able to counteract our New World-Fu and win the war maybe they poisoned our beer, drugged our venison-jerky, or just decided to rescind the tea tax that started the whole thing in the first place.

How the dastardly Redcoats could have triumphed in the war isnt important. What we want to look at is the kind of houses British Americans would live in if they had.

Lets go in chronological order, starting with the coolest architectural style ever, at least until the Modernists started building glass houses in the the Los Angeles hills: CASTLES.

This castle in Narragansett, RI, built in 1882, has a tower, turrets, ocean views, and is listed for $5.950 million, or £3,702,554. Granted, castles were 500 years out of fashion by the time the American colonies were founded and are therefore anachronistic, but cmon, this is an alternate history time-travel piece, and besides: CASTLES.

This British Colonial-Era home in Georgetown, SC was built circa 1737, and is listed for $329,000, or £204,729. According to the listing, this 2 bed, 2 bath home [W]as actually owned by four countries in its colorful 275 year history. Was used by the British Commanding Officer during the Revolutionary War during the occupation of Georgetown in 1780-81 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This home represents the birth of the American style, though it was built by folks who considered themselves British subjects.

We return to Greenwich, CT for this Georgian home, built in 1925 and listed for $8.495 million, or £5,286,251. Since the term Georgian Architecture refers to the building styles employed during the reign of four consecutive King Georges, it covers an eclectic variety of styles over a period covering 1720-1840. This home 6 bed, 6 bath, 6,926 square foot home  is an excellent example the of very popular Georgian Colonial style. Tea and crumpets, anyone?

This relatively sedate Victorian home, also in Greenwich, CT, was built in 1885 and is listed for $8.975 million, or £5,584,945. This beautiful 9 bed, 5.5 bath home typifies the Victorian style: asymmetrical design, windows of different sizes and shapes, gingerbread siding, a turret, and a wrap-around porch. Perfect for novelists picture a colonial Charlotte Bronte scribbling away in the garret.

This Edwardian home in San Francisco, now converted to multi-family housing, was built in 1900 and is listed for $2.1 million or £1,306,783. This home reflects the return to symmetrical form that succeeded the more fantastical designs of the Victorian era. The preferred home of London City bankers at the turn of the century, this house near the Haight is now representative of a style that is quintessentially San Francisco.

1805-1809 Page Street, San Francisco, CA

This semi-detached home in Washington, DC was built in 1954 and is listed for $1.395 million, or £868,077. The semi-detached house (what we Yanks call a duplex) is extremely popular in the UK, with over 34% of English homes representing the style. This 2 bed, 3 bath example is a taste of London in our very own capital which, of course, would not exist if the British had won the war.

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