“Shotgun” houses — typically narrow, rectangular, one-story structures featuring doors on each end with a straight “shot” from one to the other — are closely associated with New Orleans. “Many believe ...

Few elements of the New Orleans cityscape speak to the intersection of architecture, sociology and geography so well as the shotgun house. Once scorned, now cherished, shotguns shed light on patterns ...

'Shotgun' is a long-established house style in the United States, best known for its narrow structure and linear layout. Dubbed shotgun due to its slender architecture that would theoretically allow a ...