P'Town with Palm Trees?

My first, and very strong, impression of Key West was that it was a larger, tropical version of Provincetown. Like P'town, it has a main commercial street (Duval St.) lined with open-air restaurants, art galleries, T-shirt shops, some interesting commercial buildings, and very few chain stores:




Away from Duval Street, the town is full of 19th-century wooden houses, oddly reminiscent of New England even though they're done up in tropical styles, with verandahs, overhanging eaves, etc.

There may have been some maritime influence in this mixing of styles; Key West was one of Florida's major towns during the heyday of New England sea commerce, at a time when Fort Lauderdale was still run by the Army and Miami was a farm.

These pictures don't quite do the New England resemblance justice -- or maybe it wasn't as obvious as I thought it was -- but here are some of the houses that struck my eye: