Changing tastes in architecture, played out over hundreds of years, are often the clearest markers of a city's history. Forbes talked to historians and museums and consulted building records to find the oldest neighborhoods in town. On the East Coast, many of the neighborhoods date to the 1600s, while in the Midwest and West Coast, neighborhoods are more likely to have been founded in the 1800s.
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