Creole architecture in the United States is present in buildings in Louisiana and elsewhere in the South, and also in the U.S. associated territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. A vari
Williamsburg, a late 1830s example of a Creole cottage with neoclassical detailing in Natchez, Mississippi. It features the common features of most Creole cottages: separate entrance doors to each interior room, central chimney, raised basement, and is situated on the front property line.
Latour and Laclotte's atelier, the urban form of a Creole cottage in New Orleans.
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A shotgun house is a narrow rectangular domestic residence, usually no more than about 12 feet wide, with rooms arranged one behind the other and doors at each end of the house. It was the most popula
A modest shotgun house in New Orleans's Bayou Saint John neighborhood shortly after Hurricane Katrina. Shotgun houses consist of three to five rooms in a row with no hallways and have a narrow, rectangular structure.
Shotgun house in the Fifth Ward neighborhood of Houston, Texas, 1973, as pictured in a photo by Danny Lyon.
Shotgun houses in Louisville, Kentucky. In cities, shotgun houses were built close together for a variety of reasons.
The portion of the Third Ward of Houston, Texas, north of Truxillo, has many shotgun shacks