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What's A Shotgun House?

If you've ever stood at the front door of a narrow historic home and could see straight through to the backyard, you were probably about to enter a shotgun house. Although we wouldn't recommend it, ...
'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 ...
The long, narrow and humble shotgun house, ubiquitous in Louisville's oldest neighborhoods, tells a remarkable story of working-class and architectural history, traced back across rivers, seas and ...