Among these local design quirks is an adorably petite home style called the Shotgun house. Originally popularized in New Orleans and other parts of Louisiana around the 1800s, shotgun homes are ...

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Few elements of the New Orleans cityscape speak to the ... social preferences and construction methods. The shotgun house is not an architectural style; rather, it is a structural typology ...

A shotgun house is characterized by its narrow, rectangular shape and linear arrangement of rooms. The design ... style—ensured they were sustained, and they continue to be a hallmark of New ...

narrow lots common throughout New Orleans. But the Mod Guns will not share the room-into-room-into-room floor plan of the shotgun house. Instead, a screened-in porch will separate the ...

The shotgun house style originated in Haiti ... Shotgun houses in New Orleans and across the country share similar characteristics. The floor plan of historic shotgun houses typically went ...

“Shotgun” houses ... in that way to New Orleans, which was a major port city in the slave trade,” said Aidoo. She said it’s likely that the architectural style took off in New ...

The shotgun house is to New Orleans what the bungalow is to Chicago: the ubiquitous home of the middle and lower classes, found so frequently that it seems to have been stamped out by an assembly ...